Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Carey went on a scoring fling, piling up a 64-40 spread with ten minutes remaining. The Red scored 17 points to Harvard's one during the spree...
Though he could think of some cases where an extramarital fling "might save a politician's sanity," said Democrat John V. Lindsay, 54, that philandering politician in the former New York mayor's first novel is strictly fiction. The central character in The Edge is dapper Mike Stuart, an ambitious Congressman with a wife, three children and a mistress. The author, insisted Lindsay, is an ambitious ex-Congressman with a wife and four children. Period. "As my old friend Bill Buckley said, there is a certain amount of obligatory sex in a book," Lindsay observed at a Manhattan...
...refrigerators and washing machines, a water-treatment equipment firm and a phototypesetting product line, Singer's management is clearly concentrating on reducing a debt that now exceeds $700 million and increasing earnings that peaked in 1973 at $94 million on $2.4 billion in sales. Throughout Singer's fling with multinational conglomeration, its oldest product never stopped making money. In 1974 the consumer-products division, chiefly sewing machines, earned $34 million and is thought to have turned a profit of $36 million...
...Dray came on strong in the shotput, outdueling Jiggetts for a measure of revenge. The Boston College ace's best effort nestled to the earth after defying gravity for 54 ft., 1 3/4 in. Meanwhile, Jiggetts could muster only a fling of 51 ft. 3 in. for second place honors...
...hours' sleep." How then did Reagan win the governorship twice without exhaustive efforts? The answer: His two opponents, Pat Brown and Jesse Unruh, were easy setups for him, and it was the staff that burned the midnight oil. An adviser who helped direct Reagan's 1968 presidential fling says: "Things have come pretty easy for the Governor. Really, he's never been tested hard...