Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's resort to undeaconlike idiom was perhaps best explained in a subsequent Sunday New York Times Magazine article by Norman Mailer-in which Carter used a still raunchier expression. Quoting Carter as saying, "I don't care if people say " Mailer wrote, "And he actually said the famous four-letter word that the Times has not printed in the 125 years of its publishing life." (For what else the Times and other papers did not publish, see PRESS.) Analyzed Mailer: "It was said from duty, from the quiet decent demands of duty...
...conversational ingenuity sort of petered out after a study of the Olympic athletes displayed in the the sports section of a newpaper and a resort to numbers, as they jotted down the scores of various games for me. The train pulled into their station during a game of canasta, and they trooped off. Janev rushed back momentarily, to shake my hand and present me with a left-over tin of meat; and the conductor showed up to throw me out of first class, now that my escort was gone...
...failed to return it. According to De Vathaire, Kay threatened to kill him and demanded money in exchange for the dossier. Whether to yield to his blackmailer, to divvy up the loot with his accomplice, or just to relax with a pal, De Vathaire met with Kay at a resort hotel near the Swiss border after the theft, whereupon both men vanished. So did the 8 million francs. Last week Kay phoned a Paris newspaper from his hideaway, declaring, "I had nothing to do with it. For once, I wasn't doing anything. It's De Vathaire...
...planes in last week's collision were a British Airways Trident-Flight 476-bound from London to Istanbul with 63 aboard, and a Yugoslav DC-9. The Yugoslav plane had been chartered to return West German vacationers to Cologne after a 14-day vacation at the Adriatic resort of Split...
...vague intentions of becoming a Buddhist nun. Shortly after her arrival, she met a fast-living young Frenchman by the name of Alain Gauthier and attended a party at his apartment, where he was heard to remark that it would be fun to take Theresa to the nearby beach resort of Pattaya. A few days later, on Oct. 18, Theresa's bikini-clad corpse was found at Pattaya. She had been drugged and buried in the sand...