Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beacon Construction Company, owner of the property, first contemplated construction in the summer of 1964. Nothing happened during the summer, but the next fall the architect said that construction would begin before the summer of 1965. The Amoco station and another firm. Avis Rent-A-Car have remained on the site on a month-to-month basis, not knowing when they would be forced to leave...
...movement is the emphasis which all New Wave directors place on originality and experimentation. These directors are also quite young; hence their tendency to celebrate youth and spontaneity, And whether they are conscious of the fact or not, a concern with honesty runs throughout their films. They will always rent an apartment in preference to shooting a fake studio interior, and their departures into fiction will always be shown as patently nonsensical rather than strain your credibility...
...Lebanese military installations and sold them to Israeli agents. Before they could arrest him, Walcott skipped out, leaving behind his plane. A Lebanese military court sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment at hard labor. But by that time Walcott had been in London to recruit two pilots and rent a plane under the pretext that he ran a freight-hauling service for oil companies in the Middle East. Picking up a consignment of 675 Swiss watches in Nicosia, he headed back to India under the name of Peter Philby...
...feuds were epic. The late Harry Cohn, then president of Columbia Pictures, became so furious because he was consistently poorly seated that he bought the building housing Le Pavilion. Soule kept right on seating Cohn in Siberia. Cohn raised the rent. Soule simply moved his restaurant, at a cost of some $400,000, out of the building. His impossibly high standards in the kitchen led to endless resignations, all to the ultimate benefit of gastronomes, for those who left today preside over many of Manhattan's best restaurants. He had become what all restaurateurs aspire to be-the perfect...
...Puerto Rican-Negro neighborhood where the "cop" is traditionally the enemy. His neighbors refused to speak to him; people stood outside his store muttering "Cop lover" or "Nigger hater," and customers no longer came to him. "Even people I helped, even people I lent money to pay the rent," he said, "they let me down." Negrón had been forced to sell his store for $400, even though he bought it for $5,000. He was left almost penniless, and his wife...