Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humor. This time the Osborne spokesman is a caustic writer named Laurie (Paul Sco-field). Laurie, his wife, and two other married couples form the immediate entourage of a "dinosaur" of a film producer called K.L. They have fled their employer for a secret respite in Amsterdam, but they spend most of the evening talking about him and one another. Apart from the intramural shoptalk, the chitchat goes something like this. Dan: "Have you ever thought of airlines for homosexuals?" Laurie: "I say: what a splendid idea. You could call it El Fag Airlines...
...Frankfurter," McCloskey said, "during most of his tenure went against the main trends of Court opinion. Douglas has been disinclined to spend time producing decisions that close legal loop-holes, and Black, for reasons obscure to me, has chosen a method of opinion writing that is assertive rather than explanatory...
...waged on national television, blacks fought with Miami police in Liberty City, a Miami slum about six miles away from Miami Beach. Police reported rampant looting. Republican Governor Claude Kirk called in the National Guard and appeared on television at 7 p.m. asking people in the area to spend a quiet night with their families. By midnight, four Blacks were dead and over 75 people were arrested...
...hoped to replace all the certificates of actively traded issues with a standard-sized punch card. Every stock or bond issue will have an eight-digit identification number that will be used on all wire communications, transactions, transfers and dividend claims. Standard & Poor's will spend close to $1,000,000 coding some 1,000,000 stocks and bond issues into two directories, each the size of the Manhattan phone book. It plans to make a profit by selling the directories to brokerage firms, banks and bond houses...
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorched. That is to say, husbands who spend the torrid days of summer in air-conditioned offices reached by air-conditioned cars, buses or trains find it difficult to say no when overheated wives demand air conditioning at home. As a result, cooling units have become the smartest-selling home appliances after refrigerators and washing machines...