Word: excessives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said a heavily accented voice: "Hurry over to No. 80 Avenue Camille Pelletan and you will find a blue-green 404 Peugeot with interesting stolen property in it." The flics located the car, and in an excess of cunning watched it for 24 hours in the hope that its owner would show up. Naturally, no one appeared, so the police decided to search the car. There on the back seat, wrapped in newspapers, were eight rolled-up canvases by Cézanne that had been taken from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence last August. Valued...
...outfield at present. For the first game, though, he will be joined by his JV colleague from last year--Fred Karp. Mike Cronin, who hit .333 as a utility infielder last year, is slated to move to the outfield. In fact, Shepard will experiment with a lot of excess infield material during the spring swing in an effort to find a reliable outfield trio...
Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vollucci last night called the University's offer of $1 million in excess of the fair market value for the MTA Bennett Street Yards "unfair to other developers, and to the people of Cambridge...
...television industry employs something called Broadcast Advertisers Reports, which monitors TV commercials and helps the industry regulate itself. Last week B.A.R. Chairman Phil Edwards turned around and bit the master. His chief complaint: B.A.R. monitors local stations, which choke the air with commercials in excess of industry rules. B.A.R. turns in a report. The station ignores it. The National Association of Broadcasters ignores it. The commercials go on. "I suppose we would have realized from the start that nobody would give himself a ticket for speeding," said Edwards. "We will not be privy to a farce...
...naughty-pink front of this handsomely-boxed "special collector's limed edition" (there is, of course, no regular edition), "At last! Now you can read this long suppressed literary classic!" 1601, we are further assured, is a "delightfully wicked masterpiece." At $6.50 for a text slightly in excess of 2000 words, it had better...