Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitutional provision barring him from a second consecutive four-year term. Instead, he decided to resort to the "technicality" of running his wife for Governor in the Democratic primary. A pleasant, ingenuous mother of four, she had married George in 1943 when she was a 16-year-old dime-store clerk and he was a 23-year-old law-school graduate driving a dump truck. Until Wallace made her a candidate, Lurleen had been a bashful Statehouse homebody-the role to which she would like to revert...
...back and forth between Cecil's innards and the cockpit, where he could get guidance from the ground. He was armed with the flashlight, screw driver and pliers that he always carries with him when flying. Finally he thought he had located the right relay switch. Taking a dime-store binder clip that he uses to hold papers in his documents case, Cotton ripped off one of the clasp's wire handles, stripped an equipment strap for insulation ("My hands were sweating") and inserted the wire with the pliers. "Okay, okay!" he yelled to White, who then pushed...
...Pill on sale in the dime stores...
Judex adds a subtle, sophisticated and endearing chapter to the swollen literature of cinematic pop art. In homage to French Movie Pioneer Louis Feuillade, Director Georges Franju tenderly resurrects Judex, a formidable mass hero whose dime-novel adventures burgeoned on the silent screens of France between 1916 and 1918, decades before Superman got off the ground as a force for good. Happily, Franju never yields to the temptation of playing a soggy old classic for easy laughs as a smart-alecky spoof. Instead he celebrates it with sound, as a nostalgic song of innocence, an ode to an era when...
Brougham's staff pretended to be outraged. One reporter traipsed around with a sign taped to his back: "Millions for charity, but not a dime for sports-writers." Brougham obviously thinks sportswriters need none. "It will be a challenge to be sort of poor again," he said. "It will keep a guy humble...