Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before long, so many defective watches were returned that Sears advertised for a repairman. Alvah Curtis Roebuck, 23, who had been earning $3.50 a week fixing watches in the corner of a delicatessen shop in Hammond, Ind., got the job. In 1891, Sears set up a partnership with Roebuck (Sears kept two-thirds control) and rapidly expanded sales by filling his catalogue with every come-on known to the sharp retailers...
...honors at both the college and the law school, rose to be one of the top lawyers in the state. In 1930 he joined the firm of Nicholls, Wyche and Byrnes, eventually became Byrnes's assistant when Byrnes was Secretary of State. The two men later went into partnership again, separated only after the gubernatorial election...
...hide his contempt for the purge and for Liberal Premier Yoshi-da's administration. He has written a book in which he seriously questions whether the U.S. can win an all-out war with Russia. Tsuji wants U.S. arms but he does not want to be bound in partnership with the U.S. Says he: "I like you, but don't hug me too tight...
...British (unofficially represented by Tory M.P. Robert Boothby) disliked Reynaud's accusations, but could not quite dismiss them. They talked of Britain's interlocking circles: partnership with Commonwealth and Empire, alliance with the U.S., and treaty with Western Europe. Wanting to operate in all three circles, Britain is unwilling to unite with the continental countries; Scandinavia won't unite with them unless Britain does, and the other countries refuse to unite among themselves without ,the British and Scandinavians...
...called 'cold war' had no recognizable beginning, and, I am afraid, has no foreseeable end . . . We must think in terms of a continuing partnership-or perhaps of something more than a partnership-a relationship which cannot be dissolved, between our two countries...