Word: leeched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Savakis, Caramanis and Kitromilides speak of the oil fields in northern Greece as the next target of U.S. multinational corporate growth and they anticipate arrangements, between the right-centrist government of Caramanlis and American interests, that will leech the Greek homeland...
...author, a former TIME correspondent, has summered on the down East island of North Haven for decades and traveled extensively throughout the state in recent years. His advice is that the state must rediscover and build upon traditional trades, crafts and industries-such as boat building-that do not leech the land...
Died. Margaret Leech Pulitzer, 80, historian who twice won the literary prize established by her father-in-law; of a stroke; in New York City. The wife of Joseph Pulitzer's son Ralph, she wrote three undistinguished novels and was co-author of a play before turning to history in the 1930s. She won her first prize in 1942 with Reveille in Washington, a portrait of the nation's capital during the Civil War; in 1960 she received the second award for In the Days of McKinley...
...makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow-witted Daddy than he'd be willing to admit was possible in real life. Cinema 57. 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. every two hours...
...makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow-witted Daddy than he'd be willing to admit was possible in real life. Cinema 57. 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. every two hours...