Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...microphones and cables. He gave his guitar a few licks and then, from behind the mask, started singing. The applause began to grow. After a pulsating rendition of an old favorite, It Ain 't Me, Babe, he pulled back the mask to reveal the familiar ironic smile and hawk's eyes of the single most influential poet of the entire rock era. The crowd went wild...
...will conquer and subjugate the world," says Sun Myung Moon. "I am your brain." The latter statement is quite literally true for a growing coterie of young American converts, who regard the South Korean cult leader (TIME, Sept. 30, 1974) as the second Christ. Asking no questions, they obediently hawk candy and flowers, raising millions to spread the faith. They exist on a shoestring, while Moon, 55, lives in lordly fashion in a 25-room mansion in New York's Westchester County...
Curiously, some of the OPEC nations most noted in the past as firebrands pushing for ever-higher prices are among those now raising their crude less than the agreed-upon 10%. Algeria has hiked its prices only 8.5%. Indonesia, another former price hawk, raised some quotes but cut others so that its increases average a mere 1.6%. "Basically we are staying put on price, but as a good member of OPEC we had to go through the motions," said Mohammad Sadli, the nation's minister of mines, in Washington last week...
...price. Still, the moderate size of the increase represents a huge victory for OPEC'S price doves, led in Vienna by Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani. He was joined, surprisingly, by the delegation from Algeria, previously a hard-liner on oil prices. On the hawk side, a bloc including Libya and Iraq lined up behind Iran's Interior Minister Jamshid Amuzegar to demand initially a boost of 20% or more. Personally, no love is lost between Amuzegar and Yamani, and the arguments became sulfurous. At one point, Yamani stormed out of the closed meeting...
Elegant and worldly, with the profile of a melancholy hawk, Nadelman was adored by rich women and duly married a millionairess; he acquired a Manhattan house and a splendid estate on the Hudson. In five years (between 1923 and 1928) the Nadelmans spent more than half a million dollars buying American folk art and were the first systematic collectors...