Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down" payment mortgage (the builder pays the closing costs), the year when autos were funneled out with no money down, up to 42 months to pay. In Corpus Christi, Texas, movie houses even urged patrons to put admissions, popcorn and peanuts on the cuff, while in Omaha, one pet-shop owner went so far as to sell an orangutan on the installment plan...
...military pacts had been made with the Soviet Union, and Afghanistan's policy of neutrality was unchanged. The $100 million credit extended to Afghanistan by the departing Russians would be used for peaceful projects, i.e., hydroelectric power, irrigation, etc. In effect, said Daoud, Afghanistan is still free "to shop" with the West. The hint was heavily underlined: the Afghans, who like to think of themselves as the Orient's wiliest wheeler-dealers, were inviting the U.S. (which has already granted Afghanistan credits amounting to some $50 million) to outbid the Communists...
...shopping expedition in Windsor, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 7, along with five-year-old Princess Anne, in the tow of a royal nanny, rummaged about a gift shop "to buy a secret Christmas present for Mummy." His gift for Queen Elizabeth II: a miniature watercolor of Mummy herself, caparisoned in the full-dress uniform of a colonel of the Grenadier Guards, sitting sidesaddle on a chestnut horse named Winston. Among the little Princess' selections: a watercolor showing her namesake, Queen Anne, attending the Ascot Races some 250 years...
Fresh May Wine. During the two years (1886-88) the three painters saw each other, they were unknown outside their own small circle of artists. Their favorite Paris haunts were the bars of Montmartre, the paint shop of Père Tanguy, and the mezzanine of Goupil's Gallery, which modest Dutch Art Dealer Theo van Gogh had turned into a boisterous rendezvous for the despised impressionists. There congregated the unbought painters, including Toulouse-Lautrec, then 23, and swashbuckling Paul Gauguin, 39, the onetime stockbroker who was now a full-fiedged painter just back from Panama and Martinique, roaring...
Local florists gave varied comments on the issue. The proprietor of the Brattle Square Florist Shop said that there was no shortage, pointing to the piles of Christmas greens around his shop. Others said that though now they had fairly large stocks there would be a definite shortage in the next few days. They also admitted that the prices would rise significantly...