Word: rimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dropout or Da Vinci. Some hangover. At 53, Kroyer is a millionaire several times over, supports a stable of Jaguars and race horses on the proceeds of more than 200 patents covering items from frying pans and bicycle rim linings to papermaking processes and ship-salvage techniques. He also has a $1,000,000 glass-and-steel research center near Aarhus and a staff of 60 en gineering assistants to ease the migraine of beating his brainstorms into workable plans...
...have American writers been so interested in the novelistic possibilities of poverty and despair. This and the following two books, A Glance Away and The W.A.S.P., all deal in their own way with life in the slums. A Hall of Mirrors' three main characters slide along the rim of vagrancy in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is an alcoholic disk jockey who relies on soup kitchens for survival; his adoring girl friend has a look that makes cops mistake her for a prostitute; Rainey is a physically repellent welfare worker who gets chased off the streets by the very people...
...eating). In Chinese, it is known as tan wu (greedy impurity), in Japanese oshoku (dirty job), and to the Pakistanis, it is ooper ki admani (income from above). Every Oriental language has its own phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words are unpleasantly familiar. All around the rim of mainland China, many Asian nations are making notable progress, but the greatest obstacle remains the furtive hand in the till, the kickback artist, the bagman, the specialist in "squeeze." Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has more than his share of corruption to bog him down at home, is convinced...
...could keep his own men in close contact with the enemy. After 22 hours of almost nonstop righting, the V.C. broke off to slip away by night. They left behind 150 dead and a number of prisoners, including the battalion's deputy commander. Along the rectangle's rim, U.S. and South Vietnamese troopers killed 135 other guerrillas, blew up nearly 700 bunkers...
Michigan's problem arose after the U.S. Congress approved Daylight Saving Time for all states except those that specifically asked to be exempted. Michigan's legislature duly voted for exemption, largely because the state lies on the far western rim of the Eastern Time Zone, making for 10 p.m. sunsets in some western towns under Daylight Saving. Residents of more easterly Detroit, however, were loath to lose the extra hour of leisure-time illumination that Daylight Saving gave them. To get the hour back again, they resorted to the referendum...