Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supermarkets. The seven-to eight-month "float" between the time that he sold the stamps to the grocer and the time the customers cashed them in gave Carlson the money needed to buy the premium gifts and print stamps. Long before the market in trading stamps slumped in the late 1960s, Carlson began to diversify. His first major move came in 1961, when he bought the venerable Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis, using the convenient float. In subsequent acquisitions, he had generous lines of credit from many banks...
Lafleur had been the impetus behind Montreal's late comeback from a 3-1 deficit as the third period began. At 6:10 he circled the Boston cage, then spotted Mark Napier streaking netward and gave him a perfect set-up. Two minutes after that, Lafleur repeated the trick as Guy Lapointe tied it from the point...
Quebec's chain-smoking premier, Rene Levesque, gained power in the late 1976, by deposing an anemic Liberal government with a stunning triumph. Levesque's separatist doctrine is the party's raison d'etre. He originally drafted the policy in his book, An Option for Quebec, soon after he left the Quebec Liberal Party in 1967. Only Trudeau's popularity in Quebec exceeds that of Levesque's. The Quebec leader has wisely chosen to keep a low profile during this federal campaign, secretly hoping for Trudeau's demise, while recognizing that support for Clark would label him a traiter...
...actually, even more grotesque immorality founded thousands of American fortunes in these same years--Horatio Alger and Benjamin Franklin notwithstanding. Halberstam goes on (and on) to maintain that the Chandlers "in effect invented" Southern California, just like their political hired-gun/reporter Kyle Palmer invented Richard Nixon in the late 1940s, just like the Times's protective coverage of Nixon made him the paranoid schizo he turned...
...easily forgiven but for Halberstam's reputation as a scrupulously accurate reporter, errors difficult to track down because Halberstam rarely attributes his stories (he simply includes a four-page list of people he interviewed, leaving it to the reader to mix and match). For instance, Halberstam completely rewriters the late Louisiana governor Earl Long's great line about Time/Life's Henry Luce ("Mr. Luce is like a man that owns a shoestore and buys all the shoes to fit himself. Then he expects other people to buy them."), adds a few Southernisms for that authentic ring, and puts...