Word: legion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success stories that inspired the flood of capital are legion and legendary. France's Baron Marcel Bich, for example, bought the Waterman Pen Corp. in 1958 for $2.5 million and built it into the flourishing Bic Pen Corp. with annual sales of $200 million...
...turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor with hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...
...French Government will bestow its highest civilian honor -- the Legion d'Honneur -- on Laurence W. Wylie, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Emeritus in recognition of his study of French culture...
...streets for the past two years. "Just the other day I said to myself, this is going to end, too--this uniform. I think I'll go through a new stage," the smooth musician says, off the streets and in a coffee house. At a time when the legion of street musicians splits somewhat frantically for the subways, coveted club gigs and regular jobs, Meyreles confidently plans a departure from the street musician life, where he has made his living for three years...
Indeed so: at age five, Sam Cummings, the son of a Philadelphia Main Line family, found an old German machine gun behind the local American Legion post and dragged it home. He rebuilt the gun and started collecting others. As a student on a term abroad at Oxford University, Cummings toured the armament-strewn battlefields of Europe, and there resolved to become a weapons dealer. Between college (George Washington University) and achieving his vocation, he spent three years working for the CIA, identifying guns captured during the Korean...