Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once in a while Chinese. Best of all, she got John Jr. and Caroline to devour their spinach by decorating it with little egg-white faces. Last Christmas, Mrs. Kennedy's Christmas card to her read: "You make such a happy house when you let the children help you cook...
After the Whitman baby is born, Foxy gets pregnant by Piet. In panic, they turn to Freddy Thorne for help in finding an abortionist. There follows a rather absurd turn of plot that seems straight out of 19th century melodrama. All but twirling his mustachios, Freddy agrees-in return for a night alone with Piet's wife Angela, the one woman in the tribe who has never entered the communal bed. Implausibly, Angela consents. One night in a ski lodge, after the Thornes and the Hanemas have had too much to drink, Angela suddenly says, "Well, is this...
...Deal creation, the association today is a partly private, partly Government-owned corporation with $2.4 billion to invest this year in FHA and VA mortgages, the only kind in which it deals. Better known by its nickname, Fannie Mae, the association's chief purpose is to help level off the costly peaks and valleys in U.S. housebuilding volume. It does so by buying mortgages in large quantity when home loans are scarce, selling part of its $9.6 billion portfolio when funds are plentiful. Fannie Mae deals only with such approved lenders as banks, mortgage and insurance companies, and savings...
...would be cheaper to build a brand-new bridge," admits McCulloch President C. V. Wood Jr., "but that wouldn't have tourist appeal." In fact, when the bridge is up in 1971, Wood confidently expects the investment to help the town draw 4.5 million tourists a year-ten times the number that visited Lake Havasu City last year...
...basic pitch is always to an owner's heart, not to his pocketbook. "People always feel they have neglected their pet," says Morris Levinson, president of Associated Products, which sells Rival. "To help solve the guilt feelings, they want to feed their pet better-like themselves." "Who knows what greatness lives in the heart of a dog? We do," runs the TV commercial for General Foods' Gaines Gravy Train. Purina notes in its advertising: "All you add is love...