Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hearst's "sure instinct for vulgarity" found first expression on the San Francisco Examiner, a limp rag that his father, George, who had made millions in mining, had taken over on a bad debt. In 1887, at 23, ambitious Willie wheedled the Examiner from his parent. In his very first issue, he ran a tearjerker on Page One about foundlings in a lying-in hospital, together with a juicy story about the trials of one Job Cram-whose affliction was a heavy-drinking wife. Hearst also wooed his readers with sure-fire crusades, among them a protracted campaign against...
...Parent Trap. The delightful story of teen-aged twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying-both twins played by Hayley Mills, biggest child star since Temple and a better actress than Shirley...
...moving into it," says the president of one of the nation's biggest department store chains. Of the 3,000 department stores in the U.S., 7% to 8% are currently opening discount branches, sometimes under different corporate names so that customers will not demand equal bargains in the parent stores. And virtually all traditional department stores are rapidly borrowing many of the discounters' methods. Old-line retailers such as Boston's Jordan Marsh and Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. vow that "we will not be undersold," and match discounters' prices for specific items...
...Parent Trap. The delightful story of teen-age twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying-both twins played by Hayley Mills, biggest child star since Temple and a better actress than Shirley...
...Parent Trap. The delightful story of teen-aged twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying; both twins played by Hayley Mills...