Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live when she has a near-fatal accident. Climax! sniffled over the woes of beautiful Ruth Roman as she gambled away her husband's nest egg, was accused of stealing $5,000, and made a gesture toward suicide before falling into hubby's arms in a roadside motel for the final clinch that solved everything. Lux Video Theater struggled hopelessly with a limp script about some papier-mâché gangsters who were routed by the impassioned prose of a crusading sports reporter...
...seemed. By last week the tournament travelers already looked a little worn, and the long tournament trail still stretched ahead of them into summer. By the time it was all over, the ladies would have divided up some $145,000 in prize money, and spent much of it for motel rooms and the expenses of keeping overworked care and trailers on the road. Except for the top tournament winners, the lady pros count on added income from sponsoring sporting goods firms to keep them solvent...
...home, stopping at a Florida motel near Jacksonville, Frank Dow Merrill, 52, suffered his fourth and final heart attack...
Letter of the Law. In San Diego, cornered two days after he took $6 and a $3,000 station wagon from a motel garage, Ex-Convict Conrad Hansen amiably handed over his toy pistol to police, explained that he had used it in the holdup because ex-convicts are not allowed to carry real guns...
...news stories usually run on inside pages, while Page One is given over to national and world news sum maries, interpretive and feature stories, all occupying the same places from day to day, e.g., daily Page One leaders range chattily (as they did last week) from Europe's motel boom to building trends in hospitals and supermarkets. Barney Kilgore has reluctantly expanded the Journal from an average of 16 to 24 pages daily since 1940 to make room for more advertising, but his editors still squeeze the most from every inch of space by only rarely running pictures...