Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kildare or Casey. Greeting home viewers and a studio panel of nine with a cheery "Hello, smokers," he does not order them to stop smoking in the first program. As a matter of fact, he tells them to keep it up. The catch: they must wrap a sheet of paper and two rubber bands around their cigarette packs to make taking out a cigarette complicated. Frederickson suggests that whenever his listeners unwrap, they also log the hour, their activity and mood at the time and just how desperately they needed that drag (on a one-to-five scale...
...York City social-service agencies have begun referring welfare recipients to taxi companies, whose shortage of 2,500 drivers has aggravated the chronic scarcity of cabs on city streets. Brokerage houses offer as much as $20,000 for senior clerks to help cope with Wall Street's paper pileup...
...kind of American masochism called nine European countries in 18 days. What could have been a Grand Hotel on wheels swiftly degenerates into a bus of fools, overpopulated with drooling Babbitts and hatchet-faced moms. Humor centers around the foreign John with its mysterious bidet and its waxy toilet paper. A sleazy double-entendre occasionally surfaces, as when the tour guide observes that the cockney word for sausages is (smirk) bangers...
Caires spent more than two days looking for the freshman who downed the striker. "I was delighted when I saw that picture in the paper," Caires said. "I thought, here is the actual redemption for this sad affair. These crosses were profaning the Harvard Yard...
Imagine what happens when the year comes down to one day's work for each hour test, paper, and exam. That's all that you have...