Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some neighbor begin trying to pay the rent by bootlegging, and established members of the trade are sure to notify the police rather than allow the newcomer an unfair business advantage. The two policemen who patrol the area on one shift pass the word to the two on the next shift, and the new bootlegger suddenly has a hefty overhead: each of three shifts...
...poll: "The only thing that counts is the poll on Nov. 8. When the people compare our records, they will understand what a retrogressive character Griffin is." Williams intends to accentuate the negative in Griffin's congressional record-votes against poverty bills, aid to lower education, rent subsidies, the "demonstration cities" program...
...dictatorship!" and "The military trash cannot govern us!" Dazed and tearful, Illia ignored the shouts. After the ceremony, he retreated once more to his brother's home. His plans: to sell some of the gifts he received while President and with the money, plus contributions from friends, rent an apartment in Buenos Aires. "He is a sober man," said a friend. "He will not need much...
...fabric of history is rent with unanswered questions and unresolved doubts, and for many men those tears and slashes prove far more intriguing than the whole factual cloth. From the disappearance of the Holy Grail to the attack on Pearl Harbor, many of history's great events have been marked by suspicions of connivance, corruption and conspiracy. Today, 34 months after the tragic event, a new web of doubt is being publicly spun around the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas...
...lord of the manor, an unfeeling fellow, imposes a rent increase on his poor tenant farmer. In his turn, the farmer cuts his field hand's wages to nearly nothing. In the next move, the destitute worker is sent off to debtors' prison...