Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessmen, asked them what to do, and took their advice. He promoted new trade agreements with his neighbors, offered low-cost credit to farmers, expanded cotton production on Guatemala's rich Pacific slope. "That land is so rich in nitrogen," says one cotton grower, "that you could sack it and sell it for fertilizer." This year's income from Guatemala's major crops-coffee, cotton and bananas-should reach $134 million, 35% more than...
...much more successful in the last, and best, story in the Metamorphoses series, when Cheever keeps only the mood of magical transformation. Goaded by the Surgeon General's report, Mr. Bradish gives up tobacco and his sanity. "Late in the party, a young woman wearing a light sack or tube-shaped dress, her long hair the color of Virginia tobacco, came in at the door. In his ardor to reach her, he knocked over a table and several glasses. It was, or had been up to that point, a decorous party, but the noise of broken glass, followed...
...journalists and television commentators to correct the gross errors that they made. Immediately after the tragic act, these opinion molders started a campaign trying to convince the public that the assassination took place because of the "extreme right-wingers" in Dallas. In fact, Dallas people put on sack cloth and ashes as if each and every one were partly guilty. Even university professors wrote books and articles about this guilt. The FBI and the Secret Service were criticized because they should have "rounded up" or done something or other with Oswald. But if the FBI and Secret Service were more...
...this question, as every well-trained scriptwriter knows, there are four correct replies: 1) Allied commandos and/or Yugoslav partisans; 2) Sophia Loren disguised as a sack of Sicilian melons; 3) The Thing; 4) a gruesome crew of master criminals who have all been promised pardon if they will undertake a fantastically dangerous mission to knock the hit out of Hitler...
...Winters) was born in 1900 in a White Russian ghetto. Her father, a tailor, decided to send his children one by one to "the golden land," and when Polly was twelve she arrived in America with everything she had in the world slung over her shoulder in a potato sack. At 16 she was working in a Brooklyn sweatshop. At 18 she was raped, or so she claimed. At 21 she became a madam by mistake...