Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saved U.S. currency from ruin after the Civil War, and he helped line up the votes that kept President Andrew Johnson from being impeached. He represented railroads, shipping lines, foreign nations, and even the Mormons, whom he helped win a federal land grant in Utah. Ward was not above gross trickery: once, for a $5,000 fee, he arranged to have the shoes of a Congressman misplaced to keep him from attending a crucial committee meeting. But for the most part he did not need to resort to this sort of thing-he had the run of the Government. Congressmen...
...found your review of "The Cool World" smug, pretentious, and worst of all, full of both ignorance and insensitivity. It did a gross injustice to a first-rate film that movingly, and in my experience accurately, shows what it means for a Negro child to grow up (and go "wrong") in a slum...
...view of Manhattan's Martin R. Gainsbrugh, chief economist and vice president of the National Industrial Conference Board, the ball was not about to be dropped. Predictions of a $660 billion gross national product, he said, "may, in the light of the first quarter and rising investment plans, prove to be too low. Conceivably, it may be as high as $670 or $675 billion...
...doing just that five times a day for ten days, Soup will collect $20,000. The networks, says Irving Manager, are dying to try him again. Soupy's name is all over trading cards, pins, wallets, ties, sweat shirts, T shirts, pajamas, dolls, and he expects to gross $500,000 this year. He is an overshucked cornball, but he is the moment's golden goose. And he means to lay eggs by the gross...
...weren't wrong then, and we still haven't been proved wrong." The Brandon brothers have been helped, of course, by their flair for promotional showmanship and their insistence that their stores mark prices low enough to ensure fast turnover (the new Rome store's expected gross this year: $5,000,000). After only a year, Minimax is well on its way to becoming one of the largest retail food chains in Europe. The Brandon brothers plan eventually to spread north to the even more lucrative markets of France and West Germany...