Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, the day after the Kim verdict, had far more on his mind than retribution for Park's slaying. For one thing, Seoul was still swirling with apprehensions in the wake of the stunning, couplike arrest of the former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa, and a dozen other senior officers by a group of aggressive younger generals. For another, U.S. diplomats and military leaders in the capital who had previously stood aloof were now actively urging that the South Korean military keep clear of politics, and that Choi's civilian post-Park regime try to broaden...
MARRIED. Angelo Rizzoli, 36, head of the Italian publishing empire that owns Italy's most widely circulated newspaper, Corriere della Sera (circ. 550,000), more than a dozen magazines and the international chain of Rizzoli bookstores; and Eleonora Giorgi, 26, Italian character actress who once starred in erotic films; both for the first time; in Venice...
...week job with TRW Defense and Space Systems Group near Los Angeles. The young man's duties included handling coded messages from the CIA about spy satellites. He worked in a room called the Black Vault, off limits to all but half a dozen TRW employees. The group found plant security so lax that they spent their days getting drunk on booze smuggled in via a CIA pouch, mixing daiquiris in a document shredder and selling Amway household products over the secure telephone line. Chris was sometimes sober enough to be appalled by the messages he was handling...
...shirts are big, very big. The co-owners of a Chicago saloon sold two dozen at $5.50 one afternoon last week. Some of the messages would have disgraced a privy wall, but one of the most popular is squeaky clean: a picture of Captain America emblazoned with the message: I'M COMING, IRAN...
Time enough, in 15 years, for three new generations and a dozen new audiences. The Who has outpaced them all. Time enough for a bewilderment of pop styles to flare, settle, burn out. The Who has outlasted them all. Too much time for most rock bands to survive. The Who, in every sense of the word, has outlived them all, and outclassed them...