Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Newport that it left behind its paymaster and his moneybags. On payday Lieut. James Eilberg, the supply officer, doled out the ship's petty-cash hoard of $9,500, then collected money as it was spent in the ship's store, post office and "gedunk" (soda shop), and parceled it back out until everyone was paid...
...still published in the U.S. Once a daily with 100,000 circulation, it now struggles into print only twice a week. It is a chronic beggar, surrounding its dialectic with incessant pleas for cash. Ads come hard. Its chief, and sometimes its only, account is Harry's Clothes Shop on Third Avenue, an establishment that knows an out-at-elbows tovarish when it sees one, and offers him suits for $10 to $15, alterations free. The Worker's editor is James Edward Jackson Jr., 48, a mustached man who rose (if that is the word) from pill rolling...
...endless self-torment." Wilson finds the Green Evil everywhere, and suggests it is becoming more prevalent as examinations, from college boards to corporate psychological tests, determine who is up and who is down in life. Writers and actors are notoriously liable to envy and "ambitious clergymen, service officers and shop stewards appear to suffer most." But perhaps the most obnoxious form of the sin today is Western Europe's pervasive anti-Americanism. "There are grievances against America which deserve consideration from everyone," says Wilson. "But anti-Americanism is quite another thing; it is an impotent envy which does nothing...
...clandestine printing shop turned out two anti-mattress leaflets to rally support for the referendum. "The Yale Dance will look for all the world like a Red Cross Evacuation Center," sneered one of the leaflets. "The whole idea of 'decorating' the dance with 'relaxing' mattresses and bedding is so ludicrous that we have to laugh...As a matter of fact, I can't think of anything more 'decorative' than a pile of grubby, Harvard-issue mattresses...
...deed was too large for Machiavellian neatness. In a matter of hours, slaughter became general. The populace killed more than the soldiers; shop owners got rid of commercial rivals; children slaughtered children. For five days, as a popular song of the time was to put it, "Men's bodies, women's bodies, were hurled in the terrible fury down into the river, to carry the news as far as Rouen with never a boat.'' From a window in the Louvre, King Charles avidly took target practice at bodies floating past in the Seine...