Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only by accident. Back in the early '50s, when Prudential Lines' Founder Stephen D. Stephanidis encountered financial troubles, Spyros Senior and some others bailed out their fellow Greek immigrant by taking a financial interest in the line. By 1960, Stephanidis had died unexpectedly, the others had sold out, and Skouras wound up as Prudential's sole owner. His son, bored with running a string of 75 New York-area theaters, decided to try his hand at directing the line...
...well-modulated executive. His father, by contrast, still broadcasts endless orders and advice in his own peculiar Greco-American, calling businessmen and most other people "big sots"-his way of saying big shots. He remains chairman of 20th Century-Fox, but the post is largely honorific. Having sold or given away much of the $6,000,000 interest that the Skourases had in Fox, he laments that "I'm in debt up to my neck because of this shipping business." Translation: he revels in his new role as a maritime...
...Complaint is an event," says Philip Roth. "In two years it will be a book." The event was preceded by an enormous advance buildup; excerpts from the book were reprinted in various magazines, and the more outrageous passages were quoted and passed around. Now an assured hit that was sold out in bookshops weeks before its publication date, Portnoy's Complaint has already brought Roth a $250,000 advance on royalties, $350,000 in paperback sales...
...sawdust and cellulose. Cats and dogs swiftly disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages of the famine, parents kept a close eye on their children lest they be kidnaped; the "meat patties" that were sold in the Haymarket, Leningrad's slum quarter, sometimes contained human flesh. Salisbury describes how Red Army soldiers, after gunning down two suspected cannibals, found the hocks of five human beings hanging from hooks in their apartment...
...whites to raise money, such a flagrant reinforcement of their oppression would not be tolerated by anybody. But women, in raffling themselves off to men, are perpetuating their own second class status--and this is accepted by both men, and women. Women are not objects to be bought and sold--even in jest. Donna E. Lieberman '70 of the Committee of Women...