Word: lots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard cash by anti-Trujillo exiles, the young men, ranging in age from 17 to 29 and most of them unemployed, got tickets to Havana and what they thought to be a chance at high adventure. Said Pablo Vélez. 23, "We were going to make a lot of money and shoot down Trujillo...
...that they tested above ground. Thaler himself makes no such claims, recognizes that there are still plenty of wrinkles. "We know the theory and the equipment works.'' said Thaler last week, "and our experiments have been successful from the beginning, but we will have to learn a lot more before we will be able to say we have a system. We have been trying to design a mousetrap without knowing the habits of the mouse...
...pearl-handled Colt six-shooters, and silver-plated rifles were mounted on the trunk lid. Chromed horse heads studded the I dashboard, and the bucket seats were up holstered in the soft white leather of unborn calf. The chunky, grey-thatched driver was dressed to match. Inside the lot, he braked to a stop, grabbed an armful of fancy jeans, vests and jackets from the back seat, and bustled busily into the dressing room of TV's Scott (Slingshot Slade) Brady. "Nudie," self-made giant of the western clothing trade, was merely delivering the goods...
...Adam and Eve created a lot of trouble," replied Nixon, deadpan. "Oh," protested a member of the crowd, "they created the world." "That," smiled Nixon, "is what I mean...
...wine in Sverdlovsk's Grand Urals Hotel. His sentiment was shared by all of the 73 U.S. newsmen accompanying the most tireless tourist ever to visit Russia: Vice President Richard Nixon. "[The other] tourists encountered along the way are regarded by now rather enviously as a happy, carefree lot," cabled the Washington Star's European Correspondent Crosby Noyes. "For them there are, presumably, no pre-dawn departures, no missed meals, no ghostly excursions into the night in search of elusive telegraph offices. Traveling with the Vice President is a progressive redefinition of roughing...