Word: silks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come here [Oona's] for the silk underwear," said Gabrielle Ross, a Cambridge resident. "You can't get it anywhere else for five dollars...
...sued by the former owner and a local bank. De Lorean leased his 3,000-acre Idaho ranch to Clark Higley, a local farmer, then mortgaged the ranch for $880,000 in 1976 and defaulted on the mortgage. Higley was evicted. Says Higley: "De Lorean is as smooth as silk. His henchman, Roy Nesseth, was on the scene giving us a real struggle. They're just crooks." Inventor Pete Avery of Phoenix says that De Lorean cheated him out of the lucrative rights to a widely used automobile coolant system. Yet Avery, after years of litigation with De Lorean, appreciates...
However light a heart Moore may wear on his silk sleeve, however amiable Connery may feel, the stakes are high in the game of Bond baccarat. To date, Bond pictures have sold something like a billion tickets. The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only (Nos. 11, 12 and 13 in the corpus) each grossed between $150 million and $200 million worldwide. The costs are high...
...Alex plays to lose, 20 minutes into the movie, he has won 59,000 and lost 519,000 Under pressure to repay the 510,000 he borrowed to stay in the poker game, Alex skips town with his friend Jerry (Burt Young) and heads for Vegas, the Lind of silk and money...
...Zinns of western Pennsylvania. From the abduction of the youngest sister, Deride a "strangely haunted child" to the "final bold stroke of midnight, December 31, 1899." "Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...