Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government subsidies-that leaves very little room for anything else, particularly news. By rights, such a love match ought to endure as long as the government treasury. But last week, to the consternation of the Times and the News, the Osagyefo cut them off without a dime...
...Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, by Don Russell. The author assiduously shovels away dime-novel apocrypha and discovers, surprisingly enough, an authentic and often amazing frontiersman...
...picture of William F. Cody. Even the reader who knows one thing less about the horse than the sad English lady, who knew only two,* will concede that Author Don Russell, an encyclopedist by profession, has contrived a creditable and perhaps definitive biography from a mass of flapdoodle and dime-novel apocrypha. The fact that the prose is pure wampum should not bother anyone...
Tycoon Kirby keeps a close watch on Alleghany's nickels and dimes. He often hefts the mail sent by subordinates to see if they have used unnecessary postage, shoots thema stiff A.P.K. reprimand if they have. As a hobby he collects, appropriately enough dime novels, e.g., the Liberty Boys, the Nick Carter series. But when it comes to houses, Kirby acts the tycoon. For fishing he keeps the Gaspé camp; for winter quail hunting he has a ten-room Civil War Plantation house on a lake in South Carolina; for football weekends he bought Chateau Chavaniac, a replica...
...necessarily as the top candidate. But I don't want Rockefeller in that spot." He tended to write off Nixon as an unemployed politician, figured that Nixon's defeat only strengthened Goldwater: "It's just what I've been saying. We cannot win as a dime-store copy of the opposition's platform. We offered voters insufficient choice with a me-too candidate. We must be different. My guess is that 80% of the state chairmen, the precinct committeemen, the workers think it is true. Everyone recognizes it except the party leadership...