Word: getting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCurdy doesn't deny the role of favorite. "Frankly, we're looking past this one. That may be a dangerous thing to do, but you can't get worked up about all of them," he explained...
...keep taking turns every week, damn it, "he murmured. "One week the defense can't put it together. The next week, the offense can't get started. We just can't keep doing this and expect to win football games...
...from it. These people were growing wealthy, a little, from the space program from the first American on the moon. One or two of them were even making enough money to send their kids to Harvard, had they wanted them to go, had they been able to get...
Some of those people manage to send the kid away in a hurry, often with truly marvelous excuses, but sometimes the vestiges of civility in our culture soften them up enough that they listen past the "is she in?" Sometimes they listen far enough to hear that they can get a set of Collier's Encyclopedia for free, and then, sometimes, their cars perk...
...interviewer's little deception was only one minor incident in a major war Collier's wages against its own employees. Several complained to me that they had been cheated out of their wages; it didn't happen to me, but then I didn't stay around long enough to get paid-anyway, I didn't sell any encyclopedias...