Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those spring-wound models are old stuff, and William Marvy, who operates the last barber-pole factory in the U.S., is not impressed. When one of those clockwork barber poles comes into his shop in St. Paul for repairs, he sends it back electrified. Marvy, 70, has been in the business for 55 years, and he has been up to date every step of the way. This up-to-dateness is itself a kind of spring-wound relic: the breezy, bet-on-the-future confidence of a Midwestern traveling salesman from a half-century...
...Janet Tokarski presented him with a basket of colored Easter eggs, and an elderly man sprinkled him with rose water, to the momentary alarm of the candidate's Secret Service bodyguards. Nearby, however, Gus Makowski, 44, grumbled, "He's good with the older people, but this kind of stuff won't get my vote. He hasn't been honest enough." Much as the so-called character issue hurts, Kennedy will not even discuss it with his aides. In his view, he can overcome it only by speaking enough about other issues to get voters to forget it. Questioned about whether...
Magruder was solicitous. "It may be that there just isn't the money for intelligence and dirty tricks they thought would be available. You're going to have to cut out the most expensive stuff. Try half a million...
...editions of Reader's Digest. There are numerous factual errors; on a list of obstacles that stand between the candidates and the conventions, Bakshian overlooks the New York primary. Where Bakshian is at his best--conversational, witty, on target--he is quoting liberally from people who really know their stuff and adding in analysis that, given two months and a large contract, anybody could have thought...
Vellucci promised to "stuff the list" of properties the University had acquired "down Schmidt's throat" at a breakfast meeting this morning. "Harvard has to be exposed; we have to get all the people mad at them," Vellucci said...