Word: grocer
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...resolved by tampering with the Constitution. In nearby Farmington, a dozen people, men in overalls and mothers with children, perched on stools in an empty grocery store as Gore greeted them. An 11-year-old boy asked the Congressman's opinion of Big Oil, and a grocer complained that the commodities market was being manipulated...
...ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory over James Callaghan's Labor Party. The Tories won a solid majority of 43 seats in the 635-member House of Commons,* and Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head...
...month job as a soap salesman, but the entrepreneurial spirit moved him in 1938 to ask his landlord for a deferral of a month's rent. With this $55 he started the Gold Bond Stamp Co. He quit his job and began selling the stamps to neighborhood grocers until 1952, then advanced to supermarkets. The seven-to eight-month "float" between the time that he sold the stamps to the grocer and the time the customers cashed them in gave Carlson the money needed to buy the premium gifts and print stamps. Long before the market in trading stamps...
Despite her middle-class manner and accent, Thatcher in fact is a grocer's daughter from a market town in Lincolnshire. Her campaign strategy was designed in part to impress working-class voters, especially women, that she shared their concern about prices and other gut economic issues. At a shopping mall in Halifax, she brandished in her right hand a shopping bag crammed full of groceries, while in her left hand she held a half-empty one. "The right hand," she trilled, "was what a pound would buy under the Tory government in 1974; the other is what...
...best surrealist painter -seemed to be all phlegm and stolidity. He lived in respectable Brussels; he stayed married to the same woman, Georgette Berger, for the rest of his life; by the standards of the Paris art world in the '30s, he might as well have been a grocer. Yet Magritte possessed one of the most remarkable imaginations of his century...