Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hausa tribe, whose members last year slaughtered thousands of Ibos in Northern Nigeria. The Biafran volunteers searched automobiles at roadblocks, practiced grenade throwing and ambushing. At a Port Harcourt automotive assembly plant, Biafran engineers rolled out their first homemade tanks-trucks plated with armor. Mechanics in the railroad repair shop at Enugu, Biafra's capital, were busy making bombs for Biafra's lone B-26 bomber out of casings filled with nails, broken bottles and kerosene...
...while the Courier provides friendly intermediaries who can negotiate some of Alabama's political thickets, it occasionally effuses hopelessly naive goodwill. One New Englander, told that business dealings in the South are relaxed and informal, called a beauty shop owner to sell her an ad and initiated the following dialogue...
...unison, ripped them free. They sometimes spared stores whose windows bore the crayoned legend "Soul Brother," a sign of Negro ownership. In stores owned by "Whitey," clothing was stripped from mannequins, and the headless, pale pink forms soon dotted the length of Springfield Avenue, one of Newark's shopping streets, along with a fine, crunchy layer of window glass. Women pranced through supermarkets with shopping carts, picking and choosing with unwonted indifference to price tags. One young Negro mother was stopped by cops as she exited from a bicycle shop, her four children riding on shiny new tricycles...
Over the phone, through the mails, in ads and commercials comes a barrage of invitations to join the national sweepstakes; housewives do not just shop any more, they take chances on a freight car full of oranges, or a new convertible stuffed with $27,000 in cash. This sort of thing may not be real gambling, but it does contribute to a gambling atmosphere. Says one interested witness, the Nevada Gaming Control Board's Wayne Pearson: "Statistically, gambling is the normal thing. It's the non-gambler who is abnormal in American society...
Even the British came in force. Some 50 British corporations set up shop at Harvard Business School in their first concerted U.S. drive, which they call the "Brain Game...