Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less splashy but longer established are Mel Evans and George deKay, contractors who dream up nonbook ideas, hire authors and editors, and sell the product to publishing houses. The merchandise consists mostly of such night-table cannonballs as Fateful Moments, an anthology of traumata from Joan of Arc to Helen Keller, and the Great Treasury of American Writing, warmed-over heart warmers compiled by Louis Untermeyer...
Watching her husband over the years, Selby's wife Wilma found out about his other life. As he told it afterwards, she was forever suspecting him, inspected him nightly for telltale lipstick, once threatened to kill him. Instead, early last year, methodical Accountant Joseph Selby set out to hire somebody to kill Wilma...
...month search for a murderer was filled with bizarre frustrations. He paid a woman named Lizzie Lee to find him a killer. Lizzie disappeared without doing the job. Selby next turned to Waitress Lillie Tillman for help, and she, too, failed to find a murderer for hire. So Selby paid Lillie to mail Wilma a box of poisoned chocolates. Lillie deceived him by mailing unpoisoned candy. In all, she took Selby for more than...
...gasoline for his small country store and filling station. Allen Yancy Jr., 25, a chemistry and mathematics teacher, was dismissed by the school board. He plans to go off to college again this fall, return to Fayette County with a master's degree. "If they won't hire me as a teacher, I'll get another job or farm my Daddy's farm. But I'm not going to move away...
...years of inhaling the clouds of dust stirred up contribute to an alarming pulmonary tuberculosis rate. Yet generations of foreign travelers, "asking why India's sweepers do not use a stand-up broom with a handle, have invariably been answered with a shrug: "It's cheaper to hire another sweeper when the old one dies than pay the few annas for a broom handle...