Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oven, and filled with breadcrumbs and a surprise, with comfrey and tomatoes, with currants and dill and with a delicious white powder from the cabinet which not even Merilee could identify; and when the love of her twenty-three summers, Sam Sam the sculptor man and manager of motor hotels and graduate of the world's second most prestigious business school, when Sam Bollo, sitting at the head of the table nude but for a medallion on his furry breast and a feather in his black hair, when Sam Bollo had lifted the lid from the pumpkin and steam...
Lucky Castoffs. Two lifeboats were launched and 24 crewmen tumbled into them. Only one boat had a functioning motor, so a line was passed to the other, and they pulled off a safe distance, about a mile from the ship. Inexplicably, no other boats joined them, which meant that 15 men were still aboard, including Captain Donald Swann. An hour passed. Then the astonished men in the lifeboats saw smoke belch from the Eagle's stack, and the freighter took off at its top speed of about 19 knots. Some thought it had to be a bad joke. Only...
Just the magnitude of General Motors makes it an enterprise of the highest public concern. The dollar sales of all products in 1968 reached the level of $22.775 billions. This was 47 per cent higher than that of the next biggest American firm. Standard Oil of New Jersey, more than 50 per cent higher than that of the Ford Motor Company which stood fourth in revenues, and more than the business done by the four largest non-U.S. corporations combined. It amounted to more than 1/8 of the gross receipts of the United States Government...
There is little doubt that in the matter of Harvard's $1 billion endowment. Bennett knows more about investment and proxies than any student in the college. With appropriate savoir faire, he pulled out figures on General Motor's research and social awareness that sound convincing at first. But beneath Bennett's confidence that his decision to vote Harvard's 287,000-share proxy with the management next May is the right one, there are a few clanks in the ringing rhetoric...
...freshness is now rated highly by mass-market clients. C.D.P.'s reputation for aggressive copy has helped the firm to treble its billings to $24 million in the past three years. "Would you let your daughter marry a Ford owner?" asks the headline in an ad for Ford Motor Co. To plug pubs run by Whitbread Beer, the agency tried a slapstick pun: "If your wife's not happy in The Baker's Arms, maybe The Feathers will tickle her fancy...