Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involved was dispensed mainly in dribs and drabs: $9.18 to pay for a recruited athlete's motel room, $2.11 for another to make an emergency phone call. Some of the money was budgeted for Illinois scouts' traveling expenses. One football player received a total of $300 to cover his wife's medical expenses. Most got nothing at all, and the rest averaged less than $15 per month, which is a permissible amount under N.C.A.A. rules but not under the Big Ten's. Ironically, meticulous records were kept of all disbursements, so that Elliott, Combes and Braun...
AMERICA HURRAH. A most gifted young playwright, Jean-Claude van Itallie, stirs the waters of the contemporary scene to create dramatic whirlpools, investigating three mainstreams of American life in Interview, TV and Motel...
...uses the money it's got in the bank. While Berkeley administrators and students sat arguing around a conference table, a CRIMSON reporter who wasn't supposed to be there quietly took notes. When National Student Association leaders emerged from 20 hours of soul-searching in a Washington, D.C. motel, our reporter was waiting for them. And our new printing press and new library prove that we don't stint at home either...
...estate salesmen and repair men. Undertakers in Chicago contact freelance embalmers by radio pager, and in Miami funeral directors are paged at graveside the same way. Off the Atlantic coast, fishing craft without ship-to-shore rigs are called in by radio pagers when storms threaten. In Denver, one motel-maintenance engineer packs a pager, and an executive beeps his daughter when he thinks that she ought to start home from an evening date...
Prompt Promise. Baker also evoked Lyndon Johnson's name four times. When he found in the summer of 1962 that he was desperately short of cash for his $1,200,000 Maryland shore Carousel Motel, Baker testified, he took his woes to Johnson, whom he described as "the best friend I had around the Capitol." Baker said: "The then Vice Presi dent picked up the phone and called his friend and my friend-Senator Kerr. He then advised me to go immediately to Senator Kerr's office, which...