Word: fetching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentimental or irredeemably quaint, assigned the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the dustbin of history. Presumably it will not be long before some canvas by William Holman Hunt or John Everett Millais, the kind one might have got 30 years ago for ?500, becomes the first Pre-Raphaelite picture to fetch a million in the auction room...
...pound of mutton sells for $15 and a pound of premium imported tea for more than $150. Sometimes 150 people will line up just to buy oranges. For the average factory worker, who takes home $450 a month, luxuries are even more unthinkable: a pair of jeans can fetch as much as $450, and those who are not lucky in the government lottery must part with $35,000 for a small family car. Meanwhile, senior clergymen are ferried around town in shiny bullet-proof Mercedes limousines, and Islamic Guards drive gleaming Toyota Landcruisers...
...life in shantytowns. Some 50,000 people fled India's northwestern state of Rajasthan (pop. 34.2 million) last spring; those who stayed are often forced to sell their cattle for less than $1 a head or to smuggle them across the border into Muslim Pakistan, where they may fetch $50. In Ethiopia's rugged mountainous region of Gondar, 200 people have been fleeing across the border into Sudan each...
...carried a photograph of the soldier that had been you, a keepsake of the afternoon you sank your boots firmly in the sand that slopes into the Mediterranean that lies beside Beirut. In the photograph you looked older than the cliché-older than the hills. You would fetch the picture from your pocket if the leggy girls truly wanted to see. But the girls you wanted later-the telephone you needed...
...Hitler and the alleged recipients of the books, thus committing detectable errors like using inappropriately flowery language. For the forgers, potential rewards are high. A genuinely inscribed two-volume first edition of Mein Kampf sells for $10,000. A handwritten letter from Hitler to a top Nazi leader can fetch as much...