Word: hiltonization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reports and some of the most startling videotape since the film recording the assassination of President John F. Kennedy '40 in 1963. Hinckley fired six shots at Reagan from a small crowd of reporters and onlookers at 2:25 p.m. on Monday, as the smiling president emerged from the Hilton after addressing a group of AFL-CIO leaders...
...whole thing was over in a matter of seconds, but the bullets from the cheap .22-caliber handgun that sounded a handful of times outside the Washington Hilton Monday caused damage to President Reagan, his press secretary and two other men that may take years--or lifetimes--to repair...
...first account, Philip Bruce Cline, 23, a busboy at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel, was a hero. He was working his way down from the 29th floor in the east wing of the 2,783-room hotel, the nation's largest, picking up room service food trays from hallways. When he reached the eighth floor, he saw flames "flickering on the wall" in the elevator lobby. He tried to fight the blaze, then ran down the hall banging on doors to alert guests. But the fire raged out of control for more than an hour, killing eight people...
According to officials, there were three other fires at the Hilton in addition to the one that Cline admits having started. After the main fire was under control, others broke out in quick succession in a second-floor linen closet, a third-floor service elevator lobby and in a ninth-floor fire hose, which had been cut open, stuffed with paper and ignited. Cline has been charged with setting only the eighth-floor fire but is being quizzed about the others...
...dollar: "We will look back on 20% inflation with nostalgia." Investment seminars have become regular events at vacation spots in Florida and California. This weekend some 1,600 people are expected to pay up to $445 each for a five-day marathon at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hilton...