Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waitresses would also like to see a 15 per cent tip included in the bill as it is payment for a service and not a gratuity. The Harvard "preppie" for whom Welch says Cronin's exists "always leaves a tip, and it always amounts to a dime or fifteen cents...
...fact, was rapidly proliferating in millions of small garden apartments from coast to coast. At 26, his exploits as a high school basketball star had faded into barbershop statistics. He was wed-locked to Janice Springer, the dim little broad who had sold nuts at the five and dime. He had fathered a daughter and a son, inheritor of those "little Springer hands" that preclude championship ball control. In his first escape attempt, Rabbit sought solace with a girl nearly as melancholy as himself. But he had to return home to bury his baby daughter who drowned after a drunken...
...East Dallas. Inevitably, it is the largest fair in the nation, attracting more than 3,000,000 visitors this year. Moreover, it is unique as a monument to Texas' preference for hip-shooting free enterprise, a self-sustaining, $2,000,000 hoedown that does not take one thin dime from the state treasury...
When the family's 1958 Ford began wheezing its last, Mrs. Virginia Fobair of Tampa, Fla., tried first to sell it, then to give it away. Hemmed in by legalisms, she finally donated it to an elementary-school carnival where, for only a dime, customers could swing a hammer at Mrs. Fobair's "frustration car." Mrs. Evelyn Grubb of Colonial Heights, Va., applied twice for a BankAmericard; both times the company replied that her husband's signature was required on the application. Mrs. Phyllis Kline and her husband, also of Tampa, owned an interest in a nearby...
...Said Anaconda President John Place: "Allende's accounting theory is nothing more than a thin pretext for confiscation. He's now contrived to grab the world's biggest open-pit copper mine [Anaconda's Chuquicamata], plus a second major underground mine, and not pay a dime...