Word: spate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill Graham. But this gathering of over twenty groups of pluckers, singers, strummers, poets, grinners, mimes, pickers, jugglers, solo breakers, films, twangers, storytellers, dulcimer hammerers, balladeers, and at least one sidewalk artist (he draws on sidewalks) is being organized by the Winthrop House Folk and Jazz Society, whose recent spate of profitable concerts proves its competence and artistically populist nature. Whipoorwill Productions, a group of musicians in the festival, is co-sponsoring the event along with the Music Emporium, reportedly a capitalist organization that sells instruments for profit. So with three sponsors to work efficiently and divvy up the profits...
What purpose would going public serve? The spate of stories provided an alert to New York precinct commanders to keep an eye on where Galante lives (an old, unprepossessing apartment house in Greenwich Village); where he eats (facing the door at a small restaurant near the Fulton Fish Market); where he "works" (a dry-cleaning business he supposedly owns in Little Italy); where he plays (his mistress's flat in Manhattan's Murray Hill section). Already this close surveillance has forced Galante to make one change: his 21-year-old daughter Nina used to cart him everywhere...
...HAVE BEEN no sweat off the backs of Harvard students to trudge through the slush-swept streets of Cambridge to their review sections and exams during the worst of the recent spate of bad weather. But the fact that their destinations were being staffed by a near-full complement of Harvard employees was evidence of both the workers' dedication, and some unwise judgments on the part of the University...
...been spilled over Joe McCarthy and the witch-hunts of the 1950s as on the virtues of George Washington. Woody Allen stands up against the blacklist and prying Congressional Committees in The Front; Lillian Hellman provides her view of the period, often scathing, in Scoundrel Time; and a spate of books, articles and film has appeared dealing with the Hollywood Ten trial, the Hiss and Rosenberg cases. Professional historians are also now taking a closer look at McCarthyism and America's entry into the Cold...
...been all that sharp. The economy's rate of expansion-which determines how rapidly jobs, sales and profits are created-swung from a robust 9.2% in the first three months of the year to a slower but still healthy 4.5% in the second quarter. Lately, though, a spate of figures coming out of Washington has suggested a further decline. The leading indicators dropped in August for the first time in a year and a half. Nonresidential-construction contracts hit their lowest level of the year...