Word: secondhands
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...morning after, the early edition of the Milwaukee Sentinel was selling secondhand for $20 a copy, the Chicago Tribune was preparing an editorial reminding readers of its own DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN gaffe, two television networks were sharing their humiliation with an audience of millions, and Jimmy Carter had snatched a memorable psychological victory in the Wisconsin Democratic primary. All this because in their race to be first, ABC and NBC had declared Congressman Morris Udall an upset winner instead of what he was about to be, a game loser...
...Hiss was aware that the old Woodstock typewriter had been given to the son of a woman who had been the Hiss family maid. Even so, Hiss told the FBI and a federal grand jury that it had probably been sold to a secondhand dealer in Washington...
JORDAN, which committed only two brigades to the 1973 war and suffered small losses, will get 14 Hawk antiaircraft batteries from the U.S. in 1977. It has also obtained 42 secondhand American-made F-5A jet fighters from Iran and 36 of the newest version of that plane-the F-5E-from Washington. In addition, Amman is busily improving its vintage M48 Patton tanks by installing diesel engines and more powerful guns...
...keep in touch from this point on. They would write each other ... Jerry even promised that he would come to wherever Jimmy was if Jimmy needed him badly enough ... Jimmy was pleased to have a confidant, and Jerry was excited, fascinated by the chance to have even a secondhand view of something...
...recent years the ranks of decoration wearers in France have been swollen by purchasers of secondhand medals in flea markets. The lowest-ranking medal of the Legion of Honor, the "Chevalier," can be bought for $50 at the French government mint. There are, of course, penalties (up to two years in prison) for wearing unauthorized decorations, but these are seldom if ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend...