Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first." When she walks away in frustration, the pencils join in the rebel cause and they all try to make their own movie, like the old "goofy groceries" of the 1930's and 40's who fight for love and glory that goes on after the grocer locks up for the night...
...local grocer in Tehran told McWhirter that the panic hoarding of past months had ceased. "People have changed their spirit," he said. "There is nothing we are afraid of any more. Before, the old government told us to charge ten tomans ($1.30) for a box of sweets and we charged twelve. Now Khomeini says to charge ten and we charge nine...
...They haggle worse than Afghans," complains a grocer, pointing to some Soviet technicians shopping in Kabul's bazaars. The grocer hides his best produce when he sees the Russians coming. A jeweler has a simpler defense: he just doubles his prices to the Russians. While the 3,000 to 4,000 Soviet civilian and military advisers in Afghanistan attest to Moscow's interest in the country, Kabul is not Prague or Budapest, where tanks can be rolled in quickly to enforce the Brezhnev Doctrine. Afghanistan does have one main highway, but it merely connects the four main cities...
...Little Rock, Ark. But these did not represent the essential Rockwell as far as his public was concerned. What they wanted was a friendly world, shielded from the calamities of history and the endemic doubts that are the modernist heritage, set down in detail, painted as an honest grocer weighs ham, slice by slice, nothing skimped; and Norman Rockwell gave it to them for 60 years. He never made an impression on the history of art, and never will. But on the history of illustration and mass communication his mark was deep, and will remain indelible...
...about $44 million. Roberts sued. In December 1976 a federal jury decided that Sears had obtained Roberts' patent fraudulently. The jury awarded him $1 million. Last week, after Sears had fought the decision all the way to the Supreme Court and lost, Roberts, now a 33-year-old grocer in Red Bank, Tenn., collected his money. What will he do with it? "I'll do some more tinkering," he says. "I think I have some more good ideas...