Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vanity, Obstinacy, Suspicion." The contradictions of Gamal Abdel Nasser's primitive yet complex character have made him hard for the West to appraise and even harder to deal with. In the beginning, Westerners saw much to admire in this handsome, dedicated young soldier who drove out the gross and sybaritic King Farouk, and who vowed to clean out the corruption of the greedy pashas. He seemed the promise of an honorable Arab future: unlike decadent rulers, or their wealthy retainers, he seemed to want nothing for himself. He lived simply with his wife and five children. He said...
...Soviet Union blustered that the whole U.S. position was "insolvent" on the face of it. The troop landings, he pointed out, had come not as the result of anything that happened inside Lebanon, but were triggered by the coup in Iraq. The U.S. action, therefore, was a "gross intervention into the domestic affairs of the states in this area." Sobolev demanded the immediate withdrawal of the marines...
Business was so good that the gross topped $2,250,000 last week. The producers paid off the $300,000 nut to 200 investors within four months of the opening, are now grossing $70,000 a week, of which $19,000 is clean profit. More than 20 different Music Man recordings are selling like pinwheels on the third of July. The marching band arrangement of Seventy-Six Trombones is already on the music racks of more than 6,000 brass bands across the U.S. And the ultimate recognition-from the business world-is already at the stage door: toy manufacturers...
...life among Roy's relatives that staggered them. Less than 75 yds. from Roy's cottage stood the elder Harris' swamp-angel shack where, wrote the New York Post's Milton Gross (a Brooklyn type), "you'll see barefooted and barebacked kids whooping and hollering through the woods and kittens feeding off their mothers in the front room. You'll see cattle and hound dogs and the head of an alligator long since gone. Chickens and hogs and rusty tin cans and discarded tires. You'll see garbage strewn on the ground, flies...
Last week, 40 years after his first swing on a back-lot liana, Tarzan of the Apes ooo-eee-ooed the famed yodel, dropped from the treetops into his 32nd movie. Since the other 31 were all financial successes-a combined total gross of more than $500 million and a total audience of 2 billion people-the new Tarzan's Fight for Life showed the sort of promise most appreciated by Cinemogul Sy Weintraub, new head of Sol Lesser Productions, owner...