Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frankly, the large response surprised me a bit," recalls Roy Larsen, the magazine's first circulation manager and now a vice chairman of Time Inc. "Of course I was quite pleased so many accepted, since it showed a lot of people believed in us and in what we were trying to do." He best remembers the faith shown by a young American priest, whose check was accompanied by a note ordering "the renewal of my subscription for life and forever." Decades later this subscriber, Francis Cardinal Spellman, informed Larsen that his copy of TIME was still arriving regularly. Indeed...
...buck the federal government." Essentially, the CLC felt too weak to effectively rally around the beleaguered postal workers, and the national labor organization preferred not to risk its reputation in what was sure to be a defeat. Bauer commented that "to defy federal legislation takes a lot of organizational work--we didn't have the time in the one or two weeks...
...Brink's warehouse one evening wearing pea-coats and Halloween masks and made off with the loot. At the time, the Brink's gang wasn't looked on as a bunch of affable fellows who just happened to stumble onto the crime of the century. In fact, a lot of people were convinced that the gang had wide underworld connections. Even six years after the robbery, when the case finally came to trial, the judge had difficulty empanelling jurors, most of whom were convinced they would be marked for life if they handed down a guilty verdict...
Women are looking sexier these days because there's a lot of competition on the streets with all those women going into the workforce," Klemesrud quotes Mable Morgan, author of The Total Woman. Morgan adds, "They know they have to look good--they're out there in the open. Sex is one of those driving forces that must be taken into account." The argument is as old as the hills, if not older. Women have always tried to use their sex as a driving force to con men into paying some sort of attention to them. It would indeed...
...Winthrop is a lively house, and we will concentrate on keeping it that way," Davis said yesterday. "My wife and I expect to spend the first year doing some on-the-job training," he added. "We have a lot to learn...