Word: fining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choose one day a week on which he would keep his car or cars in the garage. The motorist would get a windshield sticker identifying the day he chose not to drive; if caught on the road on the forbidden day, he would be subject to arrest and a fine...
Egyptian and Israeli officers worked amicably together in negotiating the fine points of the transfer of authority over El Arish. "It's easy for each side to get along with each other," said Egyptian Brigadier General Hassan Abdel Fatah. "Some of the Israelis are from Arab countries, and they speak fluent Arabic." On the streets of the city, soldiers of the once rival armies exchanged currency as souvenirs...
...paces about the room. Time passes again, this time into the end zone. Is the writer faltering? No! He finds the thread, and hurriedly types: "Next morning he finds the strange feet still there. 'How's everything, P.B.?' a dozen people ask him before lunch. To each, Sykes replies, 'Fine.' He telephones a doctor. A receptionist says the next available appointment is three months distant. Sykes says he has an emergency. 'What seems to be the trouble?' asks the woman. Sykes cannot tell her the truth, for he is certain she is incapable of believing that feet can be switched...
...lucidity and a sanity about him that is so distinctive. He writes clearly because he thinks clearly." Presidential Aspirant Eugene McCarthy once jokingly proposed making Baker U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; McCarthy confirms that the offer is still open. Says Humorist S.J. Perelman, whose fine, loopy wit has, almost unassisted, maintained The New Yorker's franchise as a funny magazine over the past couple of decades: "You can rely on Baker for honesty in his laughter and his anger. He has the courage to write a serious column when he's angry...
...semiprivate room. Now the bill is $189 a day. Ten years ago, a baby could be delivered at Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center for $350 in hospital bills, exclusive of the obstetrician's fee. But when 6-lb. Priscilla W. was born there in a fine uncomplicated delivery, she cost her parents $2,800?more than $450 a pound?$1,300 of that for the hospital...