Word: doles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal Democrat, the other a conservative Republican. Now they are running against each other, and they differ on almost all issues. Says Democrat J. Floyd Breeding, 61, a farmer-stockman, of his opponent: "What I'm for, he's against." With that sentiment, Republican Robert Dole, 39, a lawyer, concurs...
...went to a race driving school and plunked down $2.80 for a crack at a Formula 3 Cooper. Four laps at 80 m.p.h., and Hill, as he tells it, was saying to himself: "I must look into this." He worked as a mechanic for no pay. living "on the dole" in his zeal to drive. He tried the Lotus factory, again as a mechanic, and in 1957 got a chance as a second-string factory driver...
...behind the bar (or, more realistically, the man who owns it) knows that there are only 25 or 26 one-ounce shots in a fifth of whisky, while a three-quarter ounce shot glass will dole out 31 drinks. A bar thus can make an extra $2 to $5 a bottle by skimping on the size of the shot. In one San Francisco hotel-and bar-supply house, the manager lined up five shot glasses-all with identical fluted bottoms, all exactly the same size and shape. But one held five-eighths of an ounce, the next three-quarters...
Moonlight Flit. Brian Seaton is the elder brother of Saturday Night's hero, Arthur, growing up in industrial Nottingham in the '30s and on the dole...
...then all the conditioning of military training and Mother England falls before the conditioning of Nottingham and Dad and the dole. He lets the peasant...