Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firm in 1973 as an $8,000-a-year clerical worker. Five years later, he was promoted to senior vice president in charge of operations, a post he snared when his friend and lawyer, James Massa, bought controlling interest in the firm. The onetime clerk quickly became a high roller, building a home worth some $800,000 in a St. Louis suburb and making frequent gambling jaunts to the casinos of Nassau and Nevada...
...York City, he met dark-eyed Ida Kaufman, a precocious 14-year-old pupil so "sprightly" he called her Puck and later Ariel. She pursued her 27-year-old instructor relentlessly, until he "fell in love with her and kidnaped her and married her." The bride, who carried roller skates to the altar, became his lifelong collaborator. She died just 13 days before...
...been said that there are only three things to do in Pocotello, Idaho: 1) Go roller skating; 2) Ride a mechanical bull; and 3) Go bowling--the kind with pins; balls and score sheets...
...strives to delve into the human consciousness in unethical ways, and makes you love him for it. Killer eyes. Killer grin. Lady killer. Killer. But somehow a hell of a hero. Whether he's Bad-ass Buddusky fiving a kid his last breath of freedom, J.J. Gittes investigating a roller-coaster mystery, Bobby Dupea trying to shed his meaningless skin, or George Hansen smoking his first joint, Nicholson has found that inner peace and worldly violence are often inextricable...
...roller-coaster 1920s were particularly bad times for small business. Economic growth gyrated wildly, but the overall trend was briskly upward. In 1922 the economy expanded at an extraordinary rate of nearly 16%, but business failures also leaped up, to 23,676 for the year, or 120 per 10,000 firms. In 1924 economic growth declined by .2%; and business failures eased back too, totaling 20,615 for the year. In 1929, the year of the Crash, the total stood at no more than 22,909, a modest decline from the previous year's 23,842. The worst year...