Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later. While Greenspun guns down local pols in his front-page column, "Where I Stand," his 25 reporters are out digging up screaming exposés in The Front Page tradition. Just before last fall's elections, the paper exposed as a fraud the mail-order gold-and-silver business of Gubernatorial Candidate James Ray Houston (he lost). Last week the Sun revealed how Greenspun and one of his reporters tracked down the lookout man in a gangland bombing and talked him into surrendering. "Yes, we're just about the most sued paper in the country," says Greenspun...
...fifth year, $45,000 annually for 20 years after he quits, and $30,000 in supplemental income (for public relations work) for the first five seasons with the Sun. Davis also got himself a small extra for joining the W.F.L. instead of the N.F.L.: a $38,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow...
...draft might see Lou Silver's name pop up. Otherwise, seniors Silver, Arnie Needleman and Mike Griffin are all considering playing ball in Europe, Needleman said yesterday...
...looked like he was in his late twenties and all dressed up in a silver studded jeans jacket leaned out the window and cooed sweetly. "Are you boys looking for a ride?" Yeah, we were looking for a ride alright, and we took the ride. It turned out those guys--there were two of them--were from some obscure part of Nevada looking for some Action and they wanted to know if we knew where it was. We told them we just wanted to get to the university, that we had good friends there. They took us right there...
...hauled in. The crew members emerge from anonymity as their speech patterns and private obsessions are repeated. The dialects begin to tease the ear with unheard melodies. Descriptive passages, when they occur, achieve a haunting beauty: "Where the bonita chop the surface, the minnows spray into the air in silver showers, all across the sunlit coral...