Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bars and brothels go dead at night, leaving girls to play cards and dance with each other; little children with wild eyes pick one another's pockets. Even in the "Doom Club," a hangout for U.S. officers, there is no singing. The busiest spot in town is a shop that sells lucky charms to G.I.s. Its slogan: "No V.D., No V.C., Buy from...
That night, the President and Mrs. Johnson hosted the third in a series of ten White House receptions for Congressmen and their wives. While the women joined Lady Bird in the White House television theater for a movie on White House history, the Congressmen talked shop with Johnson and several top aides. Two nights later the Johnsons held a similar reception. This time the feature attraction was a color film, to be televised nationwide this spring, called "Paintings in the White House: A Close...
Father: Forty years you sweat in the shop your kid can go to college. Ivy League, Harvard...
...when the Chinese New Year, always a time of free spending, produced heavier than usual calls for cash. Unable to meet the unexpected demand, two small banks, Ming Tak and Canton Trust & Commercial, closed their doors in the face of clamoring depositors. As news of the closings spread, panicked shop and office workers abandoned their jobs to queue up in lines as long as 500 yards outside a dozen more banks. Thousands slept on sidewalks overnight to keep their places in line...
Outside the classroom, the life of the Annamalai student is in some ways similar and in many ways still in contrast to that of the Harvard student. Much time is spent in "bull sessions," or lounging in the coffee shop. Weekly movies in English and Tamil are very popular. Almost all students participate in some sport, organized or not. However, a special reason for the popularity of the "cinema" and sports may be the dearth of other extracurricular activities...