Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled the rug out from under Samuel Wolchok, boss of the strife-torn Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union, and ordered the C.I.O.'s powerful Amalgamated Clothing Workers to take over Wolchok's territory...
Wily old (80) Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, one of the world's richest men, reputedly learned to bargain in the rug bazaars of Turkey. So it was no trick for him to block a deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in the Middle East. The two oil companies had offered to pay upwards of $150 million for a 40% share in the Arabian American Oil Co.'s Saudi-Arabian concession (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Before the deal was made, Trader Gulbenkian wanted...
...near the headwaters of the Pecos River, 9,500 feet up, was just a corral and a crude ranch house in the middle of nowhere. With a Stetson on his head and a bar of chocolate in his pocket, Oppenheimer liked to ride his horse Chico 40 rugged miles in a day, exploring the Sangre de Cristo Mountains up to the peaks. In the evenings, he would nibble on canned artichoke hearts, drink fine Kirschwasser, and read Baudelaire by the light of an oil lamp. He invented an abstruse variety of tiddlywinks, played on the geometric designs of a Mexican...
...game room at Cabot Hall had overstuffed furniture and a plush rug, it could have given a convincing imitation of a drawing room and Schiaperelli last night. The occasion was the picking of 23 models to represent Radcliffe at the Intercollegiate Fashion show. Fifty-five photogenic 'Cliffedwellers appeared for the contest...
...spite of his hospitality, Hiss insisted, Crosley had never paid a nickel for either apartment or the old Ford car. On the contrary, he had touched Hiss for $35 to $40 in loans. Said Hiss: "I never got back a red cent in currency. But he brought me a rug as part payment. I still have...