Word: nobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began to toll. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
DIED. Sally Stanford, 78, flamboyant San Francisco madam who once served as mayor of Sausalito, Calif; in Greenbrae, Calif. Her opulent Nob Hill bordello, which opened in 1942, featured rare antiques and a 9-ft. Roman bath. Stanford, who admitted to 17 arrests and at least five husbands, relocated to Sausalito, becoming first a restaurateur and then a city council member. The subject of a 1978 TV movie, she defended prostitution to the very end, saying: "If we had more of it, we wouldn't have so much trouble...