Word: optionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Desi and Lucy, the trip to the RKO lot was at once a sentimental journey and an ironic triumph. It is where they met, fell in love-and left in the early '40s under the shadow of Desi's dropped option. Since then, babyfaced. Cuban-born Desi has become not only half of TV's most popular comedy team, but the self-made boss of a company that produces, or takes a hand in producing, 27 TV shows.* This year on three different lots Desilu will grind out 270 hours of filmed television entertainment-more than twice...
...second time. After a singing of the Internationale, Sverdlov invited the Deputies to become a rubber-stamp Parliament, warning us that "even from a formal point of view," any opposition to the Soviet regime was, in essence, illegal. Before murdering the Assembly, the Reds were giving it the option of committing suicide...
...opportunity to sign off board for up to one week if they planned to extend their absences. Team members participating in away athletic events can also avoid paying for food while they are away. Students who take short trips to complete research in other cities should receive an equivalent option...
There is, however, one fact which might shed light on their enthusiasm and disregard for "technicalities." An option to buy the land from the White estate exists, held, coincidentally enough, by Mr. John Briston Sullivan. J.B. Sullivan has purchased this option on the land, and would undoubtedly exercise it if the plan materialized, forcing the MDC to purchase the area from him if the industrialization project were approved. It is an open question whether Mr. Sullivan's civic spirit will persist when it comes to setting the price at which the MDC will have...
...month, and estimated that it would lose no more than $200,000 in 1958. "Given a reasonable amount of time, we would have had an independent and profitable enterprise," protested Stern, who also publishes the thriving New Orleans Item (circ. 105,560). Tom Stern had a six-year option to buy 50% of Owner McCloskey's Daily News stock (for less than $5,000), but, says he, "only four days before the sale, McCloskey told us that he was not impatient, that he would go along for another year...