Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spying a young female acquaintance on the up side, this yukster spun around and shouted, "Haven't seen you at the Vineyard this year! What happened, you have to get married or something?!" The young woman looked a little embarrassed, and Buchwald's friends shook their heads, smiling. "That Art," they were probably thinking, "what a zany guy." Then they all headed for the bar to talk about the Redskins...
From each firm's point of view, a corporate marriage was attractive. Phibro, founded in 1914, had just been spun off from its smaller and less profitable parent, Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corp. of New York. Though it has been making record profits, Salomon had recently lost about $40 million in the highly volatile bond market. Several senior officials at Salomon, which is one of the few remaining partnerships on Wall Street, were also anxious to leave the firm and cash in their share of the operation...
...just a banana republic," observes Kenneth Greenwood, 52, a former Royal Life Guard who escorted then Princess Elizabeth at her wedding in 1947. "You can screw around with the government here, but you can't screw around with the royal family." Robert Goodden, whose Lullingstone silkworms spun out the stuff of Lady Diana's wedding gown, insists that "very few, outside the extremists, would want to do away with the royal family. The fact that they need so and so much to live on-well, good luck to them. If you distributed it to everyone in England...
...Righto, Champ," said the Driver as the last remaining hubcap spun down Newbury Street and hit an antique clothing store with a clang...
...Nile in personal hygiene? Might not The Call of the Wild be counterbalanced by The Call of the Tame, in which a big, clumsy, good-natured dog named Buck goes on a tour of Hollywood homes, including Lassie's? Who could be offended if An American Tragedy spun off a happy shadow called An American Comedy, in which Clyde Griffiths saves his girlfriend Roberta from drowning and receives a $7.50 reward from the grateful foreman of the factory in which Roberta is considered irreplaceable? Another natural would be Life of a Salesman, in which Willy Loman, 63, invited...