Word: ll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starts to list a little, I pinch down on it," he says in an amiable nasal twang, propping his boots on a big console overgrown with gauges and dials in the ship's cargo-control room. "She's trim by the stern now, but I'll have the draft more forward when we leave. Out to sea, I'll pull in the ballast, and she'll be flat." Translation: Portz is monitoring the 106,000-bbl.-per-hour rush of crude oil into 13 separate storage tanks, some big enough for full-court basketball...
Jarvis is a wealthy retired industrialist who does not see his antitax drive as a matter of self-interest. "Hell, I can pay whatever my property taxes are," he said. "I'll just write a check...
...community's operating budget of $5.5 million will have to be cut by $1.75 million by July 1. Groans City Manager Robert R. ("Bud") Ovrom: "Jarvis said that his measure would mean a 10% cut in local budgets. Here it's more like 30%. But we'll just have to make it work...
...somewhat more comfortable concert schedule ? just over 100 dates, cut down from the 260 Bob and the Silver Bullet Band played in 1975 ? allows time for a touch of reflection. "I'd like to be more like B.B. King, become more sophisticat ed," Seger muses. "Maybe I'll just make records after a while, write songs or produce. After all, I don't know how much longer I'm going to look like this. Probably not when...
After many phone calls, Bibesco finally invited her to his apartment and dumped a great album of letters on her lap. "Now, you'll be sweet to me," he exclaimed. "Now you'll go to bed with me. Look what a lovely bed it is ... I thought I was impotent. I have been for months. But you have roused me, you marvelous amazon. Let me kiss your lips." Curtiss put quest before scruple: "After all, I figured, the letters are unique and there are plenty of women who must like this kind of approach or he wouldn...