Word: quids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rough weather, that. But as a British civil servant, Hedges takes a firm grip on his brolly and does the decent thing. Even after his wife divorces him and marries the other bloke, he still sends her birthday cards and occasionally advances the new couple a few quid to keep things going. People call him a chump, and Hedges is vaguely aware that they are right, but what can a man do when he lacks the "ability to loathe...
...Kennedy Administration about to take over, Lee decided to abide the insult long enough to test the new President's response. It was straightforward and unequivocal: no under-the-table money at all, economic assistance only on its merits-and only if it was clearly not a quid pro quo for the spy's release. Secretary of State Rusk sent Lee an apology, and Lee let the agent go without fanfare...
pared for a long and uphill struggle," Cheong declared, adding that the bombings of North Vietnam "will have to continue until they are discussed with Hanol." He suggested "some sort of quid pro quo" be arranged, with America calling a halt to the bombings if North Vietnamese regulars return to the North...
...name was no handicap. Nor was all the free publicity showered on him when a couple of Tory M.P.s protested that the bloomin' British taxpayer was forking out ten quid a week to support-of all people-Would-Be Actor Michael Chaplin, 19, Wife Patricia, 25, and their six-month-old baby. All the same, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill got off the dole by being just the slob for the job. The script of Promise Her Anything, which Hollywood Producer Stanley Rubin is filming in London, calls for a weirdie-beardie...
...mused O'Toole later, "but we suddenly found ourselves talking about horse racing and the Grand National next month. I was hoping to get information. I didn't get any." The Queen Mother did, though, when O'Toole told her he'd once bet 10 quid on one of her horses, which didn't win. "Our horses hardly ever do, do they?" she laughed...