Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quiet Beverly Hills, Calif., neighborhood, residents have been awakened at dawn as thousands of people gather for an 8 a.m. showing at a theater seating 1,450. Every day 5,000 moviegoers stand in the long queue wrapped around the Sack 57 Cinema in Boston. Four Manhattan theaters have lines extending for blocks from noon to midnight. In its first five weeks, The Exorcist (TIME, Jan. 14-21) has rung up more than $10 million at box office cash registers in 20 cities. Glowing -and gloating-Warner Bros, executives predict that it will easily top the alltime moneymaker The Godfather...
...month. All the Soviet accounts of his book, Solzhenitsyn said, were distortions designed to conceal its real content from Russian readers. Thus do Soviet leaders show, he declared, "how tenaciously they cling to the bloody past and how they want to drag it with them, like a sealed up sack, into the future...
Hale Champion, vice president for finance, announces that Harvard will take special precautions to avoid financial losses in fiscal 1975. "We are going to calculate tuition as though the total cost of undergraduate education were being split by only 400 people, sell Black Rock Forest to Sack Theaters as a game preserve, and replace bottomless tubs with showers which will share their bottoms on Saturdays," Champion explains...
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...throughout the twelve years of his presidency, the press, including the inveterate smart alecks among the still and newsreel photographers, respected a convention unlikely to be honored today; they never photographed him in movement. I saw him once being lifted out of his car like a sack of potatoes, and put on his feet, and given two sticks and two helping hands, and his hat stuck on his head for him. This was not the Roosevelt the public saw. They saw the burly upper body, the bull-like neck, and the tossing head, the confident saviour of the republic...