Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still not used to handling a pencil; they clutch them as though they might escape. Copying words from the blackboard, the students trace every letter with infinite pains, eyes darting from paper to board two or three times for each word, erasers gripped in the other hand ready to rub out any slip...
Although only 19 of the 50 state Governors are Republicans, at least 40 are expected for the Inauguration. Japan's former Premier Eisaku Sato has accepted an invitation and will probably rub shoulders with names from business like Henry Ford and Kimball C. Firestone, and show-business types such as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell. Comedian Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra will star at the entertainments to be held in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Other performances will range from the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Pianist Van Cliburn, to Soul...
...DOCTOR in Mississippi says Mr. Lee softly to be more polite to Mrs. Ellis by quietness, "and he say it don't do any good to rub it No, no rubbin arthritis don't make it any better and I never do because of what he said A hot bath helps though sure does...
...people." Thus, in one scene of the revue a housewife chortles: "Yesterday I noticed that my maid doesn't dust the table properly. So I called in the army. Now the army keeps things in order at home. It's a real delight to see how they rub, like well-oiled machines. My husband turned out to be inefficient too, so I called in the army...The synagogues are more efficient now. The Dead Sea is more efficient. The Wailing Wall is more efficient. Even happiness is more efficient. But what pleases me most is that the army...
...Gentlemen of Verona and the plays Butley and That Championship Season -were taking in enough at the box office to make a profit for the shows and for themselves. (Broadway theaters do not charge rent from producers, but take 25% of the box office gross.) Just to rub things in, some 23 national touring companies of past seasons' hits like Jesus Christ Superstar and No, No, Nanette are outdrawing Broadway productions for the first time in history, with grosses so far this season running about 30% ahead of Broadway...