Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officers, instructing them in how to write a résumé without explaining in detail that a previous job, for example, was to lead airborne missions that used infrared devices to spot the cooking pots of Che Guevara's guerrillas in Bolivia. Concludes one angry agent: "A lot of guys will wind up selling real estate...
...would swap print for wheat at the federal support price of $3.05 per bu. (Meanwhile, the subscription price was raised to $61-or 20 bu. of wheat.) In ten days the Gazette had exchanged 100 new subscriptions for 2,000 bu. of wheat, which it stored in a parking lot next to the newspaper building and then sold...
...years as a journalist, Walter Cronkite has covered his share of wars, assassinations, summit conferences and space shots, but few scoops were as sweet as this one. "There was a lot of desk-slapping and hot-diggity-damns around here," the anchorman beamed, after Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Premier Begin were shown agreeing, on Cronkite's CBS Evening News last Monday, to schedule their historic meeting in Jerusalem. Says Cronkite: "We knew we were on top of something...
From the beginning it was clear that there was a lot in the case to be curious about. The security police maintained that Biko was a dangerous revolutionary who had attacked his interrogators and had been "subdued." In the scuffle, they alleged, he had hit his head against a wall and thereafter became incoherent and comatose...
...pizza house in National City, a San Diego suburb. "It was a tiny community," he likes to recall. "The main drag was a transvestite, and the average age was deceased." Nightwork hampered his high school studies, but not his education. "I encountered a whole different element-people a lot older than me, pool hustlers and Mafioso types. I grew up real fast...