Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats were respectable candidates who campaigned hard, Kennedy, 38, spent only $300, rarely made a speech, even used leaflets sparingly. "The few mailings I sent out didn't go to just anybody," he explains. "I sent them to barbershops, real estate offices, saloons and such-to people who gossip...
...alcoholic beverage, 3) playing cards or any other game, 4) spending their free time anywhere except on the property, 5) hunting or allowing strangers to hunt, 6) fighting with their neighbors or anyone else, 7) attending sick friends, 8) holding a dance without permission of the owner, 9) spreading gossip, 10) feigning illness to avoid work. Any who do not comply have 24 hours...
...whisk the motorist to the plaza level. In the spacious, columned malls and arcades he put gardens and sculptures. To add a town-square touch, he designed sidewalk cafes, planted trees, and put benches beneath them for the tired shopper or any idler who wanted to stop for a gossip. As a centerpiece he ordered a big central clock ("Meet me under the clock") that contains puppetry: every half-hour, shoppers see a little "show" keyed to the folkways of a different nation. Midtown's overall effect, says one entranced lady shopper, "is that it's glamorous...
Ceaseless Search. The search for clues to such offenders never stops. Many IRS agents spend much of their time scanning the newspapers, carefully clipping anything that might point to a suspicious tax situation: a gossip-column item that a movie star has bought a yacht, a crime story reporting the discovery of a heroin cache, a doctor's indictment for malpractice. The Service also gets help from tips by informers, who are frequently disgruntled employees, wives or girl friends. Last year the IRS collected $12 million as a result of informers' tips, paid them $522,000 (they...
...stand." he says. "Pussyfooting around doesn't appeal to me." In recent weeks, Washington has been buzzing with rumors that if Freeman's grain program does not get through this year, he will be moved to another, less controversial Administration job. The White House flatly denies the gossip. Jack Kennedy likes Freeman as Secretary of Agriculture. "Besides," asks one White House aide, "who would you get to replace...