Word: fetching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make too much of it -- after all, elsewhere in the land, philatelists no doubt gathered, and show-dog owners, possessors of spinning wheels, antique crockery, vintage automobiles or sows that would fetch blue ribbons at any county fair -- but the Titusville event swept you back and held you stuck in time through the course of an afternoon (Why does the word stirring come uncharacteristically to mind?). Any sucker for a Zippo lighter, a cracked leather flight jacket, the music of Glenn Miller or the recollection of a sassy riveter with a mouth like a beesting would have found peace...
...Adelman's Kidpix flicks. Each child is identified by < a numbered claim check signed by a parent. Mom and Dad are given a beeper in case they need to be reached while in stores, and a stub matching their child's number, which they must present in order to fetch the child. Price...
Faced with so cheerless a life, some Iranians have been staging something of a cultural revolution within their own homes. The focus of this underground world is that icon of blithe energy, Michael Jackson. On the black market in Tehran, his cassettes fetch up to $50, and videotapes of the Gloved One rent for up to $100 a night. Many houses regularly become covert discos. In response, detachments of Islamic Guards, acting on informers' tips, have been raiding homes and confiscating tapes. The government apparently fears that the Jackson clubs could influence Iranian youth to turn against the regime...
...year was struck by the thought that if a poor man could manage to obtain a chamois-shirt concession, all his envy of Croesus would cease.) The affair nets as much as $200,000, a sum the town divides among waterfowl-conservation groups. Some of the paintings for sale fetch as much as $10,000. Some of the delicately carved decorative decoys commonly bring $3,000. "Hell," explained one craftsman, defending his costly wares, "it took me a week just to do the bill." He meant his duck's bill, not his price...
Scarcely five hours after the assassination, Rajiv Gandhi arrived from Calcutta aboard a special airliner that had been sent to fetch him. Only then did he learn that his mother was dead. The security protecting him as he stepped down from the aircraft was unprecedented in the country's history. Sharpshooters were positioned all along the route to the hospital. He was greeted there by sobbing Cabinet ministers, but he remained outwardly cool. Only recently he had said that he did not expect to take over his mother's role for "a long, long while." He had added...