Word: rug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ambitions, sexual, social and financial. Has he not promised his father to keep the family together? Does he not search endlessly to find husbands for the dark-skinned sisters? Where, then, is his free time? How can his soul soar? Still, even with these burdens, the $40-a-week rug salesman (with a shoeshine parlor on the side) manages to realize a few grandiose immigrant dreams. With his employer, the mysterious, immensely rich Mr. Fernand Sarrafian, senior partner of the Sarrafian Brothers carpet empire, Stavros investigates new worlds, from race tracks to brownstone bacchanals...
...Just a whitewash. If it hadn't been for TV Guide, this whole mess would have remained under the rug...
Some of the rug merchants who control Hollywood are cautiously thanking Allah while waiting for the next plague of locusts. They point to numbers that have obtained for the past decade: each year, give or take 10%, the industry sells about 1 billion tickets in the U.S.; some 20% of the population buys 80% of those tickets; this core audience tends to be in the 12-to-24 age group; the young attend more movies in the months between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and so Hollywood serves up its big youth-oriented movies in that period. Says Frank Price...
Though few specifics were known of the Habib negotiations in Beirut, one senior U.S. diplomat declared that the talks had reached the "rug merchant stage," implying that the various sides were haggling over the details of a P.L.O. withdrawal. By the end of the week, all parties were believed to have accepted the main principles of the U.S.-Lebanese plan. The P.L.O. realized that it must move its basic operations out of Lebanon, while the Israelis grudgingly accepted the idea that the Palestinians could retain a political office of some kind in Beirut...
...night again, interrupted only by the constant air-raid warnings. But deep dugouts make troops almost immune to all but direct hits, and deep dugouts we have dug." Another correspondent was given a piece of corrugated iron by a friendly Falklander to cover his foxhole, along with a sheepskin rug...