Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEY cast ballots with later choices, their votes will be redistributed to other candidates once their first choices are eliminated. Likely as not, those ballots-however many of them are thus marked-will ultimately end up in the pile of Barbara Ackerman, (CCA), one of the current council's strongest supporters of rent control. Unless the vote for splinter control candidates is unexpectedly strong, Ackermann's base of "number ones" among more liberal City voters should give her more than enough to make it on the council again...
Gambling is continuous on all fronts. Last night in the back room, Weenie Beanie was finishing up a two-day head-to-head gin rummy battle with an unknown card player from the west. Sadly pushing threc hundred-dollar bills into his opponent's pile of green paper, he was heard to remark, "I'm stuck so bad now, I can't stop...
...would be foolish to have a set like this and not keep it up to date. Right?" the salesman asks. "You could use a service like this in your home. Right!" The commitments pile...
...Saigon's streets to the contention that one U.S. embassy official speaks to President Thieu as though he were a "houseboy." Americans are blamed for ruining once beautiful Saigon ("Why do they cut down all the trees?") and for turning all of Viet Nam into a gigantic garbage pile. Though such talk has long been in vogue in educated circles, much of it may result from the desire of some Vietnamese to establish their anti-American credentials in the event of a Communist takeover...
Shift to Realism. Moneymen seemed relieved that Germany would no longer try to keep the mark at the unrealistically low price that had allowed the country to pile up enormous trade surpluses to the detriment of the economies and currencies of other nations. As the mark rose, the French franc dipped, then climbed back at week's end. Traders saw new hope that the combination of the recent 12.5% French devaluation and an eventual German revaluation would add up to almost a 20% shift in the official values of the two currencies-making the difference in their formal exchange...