Word: opener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lloyds, who is a Kennedy assassination buff, spends an evening in bed with a naked girl using her as a dummy to check the accuracy of the Warren Commission documentation of bullet holes. The scene ends with the girl asleep and Lloyd stouting, "This will crack the case wide open. Kennedy would have had to be standing on his head to be shot like the commission says...
Whitfield's brainchild was The Clubman's Club. It is designed to take advantage of Britain's stiff licensing regulations, which have led to a proliferation of "private" clubs. Gambling houses have to be licensed as clubs; so do any drinking places that stay open after 11 p.m. Anyone who joins Clubman's is provided with full membership in 400 not-so-choosy gambling, drinking, golf, tennis, striptease and other clubs, most of which charge a nominal yearly fee of $2.40 or more. Clubman's members, who pay $15 a year, receive little red booklets...
...took a series of jobs, including selling the Encyclopaedia Britannica at U.S. bases in Britain, France and Iceland. Whitfield says that the book-selling stint inspired them to try new ideas. "It taught us about knocking on doors, and that if you keep on going, one is bound to open." Their next ambition is to open some doors in the U.S., where they figure that the leisure business is "100 times bigger" than it is in Britain...
NORA, PHOEBE, and I waited in the car for them to come down and open up the road...
Nora made no perceptible response. Her eyes were wide open, but she wasn't looking at anything or anyone...