Word: making
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through other trades, he swelled his market stake to six figures. ''But the stock market was a little slow for me. Man, I thought I could do better in commodities. In commodities you make a profit, then you buy more, you pyramid. I was shorting wheat like crazy when Eisenhower landed Marines in Lebanon. Everybody bought wheat, and it soared. I lost all my $100,000.'' Canizaro...
...deposit on a downtown plot, then tried to borrow more to buy it. "There was enough income coming in from the property to service the debt if only somebody would lend me the money." The Establishment would not. Finally, he found a small bank to make the loan, and he started prospering. Canizaro...
...says Sills of her costar, "but she's not a boar, although she is a theatrical ham of no small dimensions." Miss Piggy has said nothing about Bubbles; all she does is inscrutably smile about their upcoming duellet. But you can't make Sills purse from a sow's leer...
...Blotner's notes make clear, Faulkner accepted editorial quibbles and orders to revise or rewrite with little complaint; it comes as something of a surprise to watch the future Nobel laureate acceding to the demands of the popular press. As a result of such proddings, Faulkner's magazine stories were usually simpler, more straightforward and less resonant than his finest work. Reprinted in Uncollected Stories, these early versions inspire a sense of deja vu, for Faulkner frequently expanded and reshaped his published stories and inserted them in novels. A tale of his called The Bear appeared...
...most bizarre episodes in nu clear history was the 1968 disappear ance at sea of a shipment of 200 tons of uranium. The heist was not confirmed until 1977, when it was generally assumed that the Israelis had latched onto the ore, enough to make 30 bombs at their atomic reactor in the Negev. This insubstantial news snippet was seized upon by bestselling English Novelist Ken Follett (Eye of the Needle), who has processed it into one of the liveliest thrillers of the year...