Word: repay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films. "I always resented people telling me 'It's too beautiful to go to the movies on a day like this.' So about three-quarters of the way through my films, I like to move out into the country, include some beautiful nature scenes to repay those people who are sitting inside the dark theater...
...first contracted to write a preface to this collection of over a hundred photographs organized by photographer and entrepreneur Larry Schiller because he needed money. $50,000 for 25,000 words in two months, and Mailer could once again make the alimony payment to his four former wives, repay his agent, Scott Meredith, and as he revealed on the Cavett show, pay off a debt to his mother. But fascinated with his subject, confessing that he at one time fantasized that he would have been man enough to satisfy Marilyn, Mailer reworks her life into 90,000 words--which make...
...Dean bank-account statement showing that the check was not good at the time it was placed in the safe and said Dean could be guilty of embezzlement. Dean's lawyer sharply objected to that interpretation of law, and Dean said he had never had any intention not to repay the money. He was later partly rescued by Senator Sam Ervin, who introduced a brokerage-account statement showing that Dean had more than $26,000 available at the time. Yet Dean's explanation that he took the cash for honeymoon and other expenses rather than use credit cards seemed lame...
...According to one committee source, the question of whether Dean had taken the money was asked by Minority Counsel Thompson "out of the blue." Dean was said to have readily admitted using the money, placing either a personal I.O.U. or a personal check in the safe until he could repay it. He said that he did cover the check later and then put the entire $15,200 in a trust account pending its disposition...
...attempting to force the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration -ironically, an agency created in response to Nader's prodding-to release used-car safety standards that by law should have been issued two years ago. The suit even asks the courts to make former NHTSA Administrator Douglas Toms repay part of the salary he received during the delay...