Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award the palm to the man who has rammed 4,000,000 cars down the throats of helpless dealers, putting many of them out of business, gone farthest toward bankrupting the country with credit sales of unneeded cars at extravagant prices and got safely away with a boasted billion dollars of net profits...
...Aviv and Haifa, bent on marketing by day, on moviegoing by night (Israel's per capita cinema attendance is the world's highest). Over their cheesecake and Nescafé, young apartment dwellers talk about new cars and skin-diving. Out in the older collective settlements, where palm-shaded bungalows hedged by bright bougainvillea and hibiscus have long since supplanted the rude huts, basketball courts and swimming pools indicate that the new generation of native-born Israelis prefer sports to politics...
...night before his arrival, as North Beach Road. Not three hours afterwards, the President was happily whacking golf balls in 50-to 70-yd. pitch shots. Then he walked along the waterfront of the naval base, talking to his brother about the submarines, destroyers, and the varieties of palm trees they passed by. "Hope you feel better, Ike," one Navyman called out. "Thank you," the President replied. "I certainly should feel well in this climate...
...UNICEF will supply free penicillin, send technical advisers when necessary. African nations will match this contribution in personnel, equipment and operating costs. Already, whole villages are shuffling through palm-topped clinics improvised by traveling medical units. The word of penicillin's magic has spread: a single shot, costing only 12?, cures a victim of yaws...
...give and worse, too late to receive, too late for carols and too late for church, in fact, too late for anything but a hasty swallow of eggnog before getting back on the bus for his return. The fate of the person residing in an obscure place like Palm Springs, California is too horrible to be considered in any detail. We will merely hope that he enjoys cleaning up broken toys...