Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Koreans threatened and often beat the men in order to extract "confessions." At one point, said Bucher, "they threatened to commence shooting the most junior members of my crew." He added: "I was rarely beaten in the face because I was subjected to a lot of camera ordeals, and they wanted me to look at least presentable. But this didn't prevent them from caving in my ribs, or kicking me in the tailbone to the point where I was almost unable to walk for weeks...
...private life, fortune as well. The successful businessman or professional entering Government service, however, may draw an official salary that is far less than the sum he is accustomed to paying in taxes. That is particularly true for many of Richard Nixon's Cabinet appointees, an uncommonly successful lot...
...going to get married. The trouble is, I just don't want to now. You can't expect a man to give you your identity on a silver platter, which is what society would have us believe. That's dishonest, and it has produced a lot of bitter women. Because I have work to care about, it's possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form...
...Expectancy. Next afternoon, the crowd gathered in the Zebra Room for the "Operation Match get-together" looks like a sampling from the line outside Radio City Music Hall. Much of the previous evening's frenzy has spent itself. The room is quiet as Milgrim begins his spiel. "A lot of you won't believe this," he says, "but within twelve months' time seven or eight percent of the people in this room will be married to someone they met on this cruise." When the self-conscious laughter subsides, he explains that "because of the small sample...
...Safe Streets Act, which Lyndon Johnson signed in June, will increase federal anti-crime aid from $63 million in 1968 to as much as $500 million in 1972. Richard Nixon also wants to strengthen the nation's undermanned police forces and generally "make it less profitable and a lot more risky to break our laws...