Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questions-asked offer of $100,000 for the return of the paintings. In fact, to show his good faith, Hobbs had returned one Picasso; the G-men. after trailing Hobbs for three months, found the other paintings rolled up in a mattress cover in a room at a Pittsburgh motel. Presumably they had been left there by other members of the gang for Hobbs to pick up after completing a deal with Thompson...
...Hollywood blend of West Point, Dunsinane and Fort Laramie. The school is hock-high in horses-140 of them-plus an indoor polo field, 150 boats, twelve football fields, 15 tennis courts, a bakery and a barbershop, as well as a 44-room hotel and a 64-room motel for visiting parents and girls down for dances. But most of all, Culver has academic status: 99.2% of its graduates have gone to college (and not predominantly to service academies-only 18 have done so in the past four years). Stanford rates Culver among the top five private secondary schools...
...downtown hotel is feeling the pinch of a new kind of competition: the motel. For years glued to the roadsides of the nation, the motel is moving into town. San Francisco, where only one conventional hotel has been built in 30 years, has acquired 52 "motor inns," as the intown motels are called nowadays; in Manhattan, which last summer got its first new hotel in 30 years, there are three big new motor inns and two more abuilding; a new motor inn in Washington, six blocks from the White House, is one of five built in the past five years...
...Greek freighter. Plainly, if she survived, she would be another witness to the tragedy of the Bluebelle. "Oh, my God," stammered Harvey when he heard the news. "Why, that's wonderful." A few minutes later, he excused himself, slipped out of the hearing room, went to his motel, slashed his left thigh, his ankles and his throat with a double-edged razor blade...
...Chicago's O'Hare Inn, a convention-attracting motel near O'Hare Airport, has started work on a $45,000 shelter under a new addition. The 60-ft. by 100-ft. shelter will protect 500 guests...