Word: maze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victor's move to simplify this maze simply brings list prices down to what people are paying at many discount dealers anyhow. Industry men and dealers sputtered as they heard the news. Columbia, Victor's biggest competitor, was caught with its policy down, hastily announced a cut that generally met Victor's new prices (but such high-cost items as the Casals Festival recordings will sell at $4.95 or $5.95). London also cut to Victor's level, except for operas. Both Angel, with its luxurious, factory-sealed albums imported from Britain, and Westminster bravely insisted that...
...policemen recently beat a Vietnamese army contingent in pitched street fighting. The Binh Xuyen is also respected for its efficiency. One day last fall the mob closed down the city's small brothels, roped in the free-lance prostitutes and set up one monopolistic establishment, a great maze of mirrored cubicles called "Paradise...
...Petersburg flat while his estates and his income go to pot. The book first finds him in bed, for Oblomov is a Russian Hamlet, except for a lower I.Q., and his daily question is: To get up or not to get up? His room is a maze of cobwebs and clutter. Friends drop in and try to lure him into making the social rounds, but he shoos them off. Parasitical cronies cadge a few rubles from him, while his decrepit old manservant grumps and bemoans the good old days. For a good 100 pages, Author Goncharov drains every drop...
...University's half-hearted attempt to price rooms on their merits has resulted in a bewildering maze of room rents. College officials have felt that the best rooms should command the highest rents, but were they accurately to follow this conviction, only wealthy students would get the good House would also mean that any new, inexpensively built Hoses would mostly contain scholarship students...
There they learned that Radford had left for Europe several days earlier, and nobody had bothered to cancel the Yoshida appointment. Turned loose in the Pentagon maze once more, the Premier and his aides wandered around uncertainly until a reporter noticed their bewilderment and escorted them out of the building...