Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife's job created a job for Cortés. Hidden as he was, he could at last make himself useful, tying strips of esparto grass into bundles that Juliana sold for home weaving. Once he took sick with violent stomach cramps. He described the pain in detail to Juliana, "until she could feel it herself." She then went to the local doctor, told him about the pain as if it were her own and brought the medicine prescribed home to her husband...
...appearance as well as his record. His breeder, Leslie Combs II of Spendrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., raves: "He has looks. He has speed. He has courage. And, most important, he has done everything right from the very start." Majestic Prince has certainly done right by Combs, who sold him as a yearling in 1967 for the then record price of $250,000-to Frank McMahon, a Vancouver, B.C., industrialist...
...start in the basement," ruled his father. Eckerd quit after six years, but later persuaded his father to sell him one of his several stores in Wilmington, Del.* In 1952, he ventured into Florida by buying three drugstores from an absentee owner. Five years later he sold his Delaware outlets, moved to Clearwater and began expanding. Doubling in size every two years for a decade, Eckerd Drugs has acquired a candy manufacturing concern, the twelve-store Jackson's/Byron's Enterprises department-store chain, Gray Security Inc. (watchmen and alarm systems), and the busiest film-processing laboratory...
...alike--will make common cause. Where the older intellectuals share power or see possibilities of compromise, then the intelligentsia will experience the conflict of generations. This "localized" conflict can be more acute. For the sake of revolutionary purity, students direct their tactics against the old liberals who have "sold out to the Establishment!" And since many of them teach at the university, they are easy to surround and threaten...
...tickets had not been sold by the beginning of April. In fact very few of the tickets had been sold. To confuse the issue the Conspirators wrote their first fraudulent sign offering tickets for sale at a discount...