Word: swap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apiece. Of the $3,600 he collected for his last-place tie with Frazier, Unitas said: "It was fun. I didn't bother to train or anything for this. I just wanted to come down and have a good time, meet these other athletes and swap a few stories. It didn't matter to me if I won any money...
...storm of protest from art historians, critics and the Art Dealers' Association of America; one prominent scholar, John Rewald, wrote an article in Art in America demanding Hoving's resignation. Then the Met revealed another secret deal with Marlborough. At first it seemed that the museum had swapped two more De Groot paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, for Becca, a sculpture by David Smith and a painting by California Artist Richard Diebenkorn. Later the Met disclosed that the swap had cost the Met not two but six works - another Gris, a Bonnard, a Picasso...
...Connally to become more active in Democratic party affairs-assuming Connally does not bolt permanently to the Republicans. Some associates have reported a certain coolness between the Texas buddies, but they still share a lake house where their families vacation together and the two pols sip whisky and swap yarns...
...packing the Volkswagen camper. Richardson, 36, business manager of a private school near San Francisco, has taken his wife and four children to the Sierras, five hours away, every winter for the past six years. As usual, the preparations began in October, when the Richardsons attended a "ski swap" and exchanged with others the gear that the children had outgrown. The Richardsons had been setting money aside every month since last spring for the vacation, cutting corners wherever they could. Wife Betsy made casseroles and froze them so the family could dine cheaply at its rented ski house. Says Bill...
...agree to the terms, the prisoners were to be returned to West Germany. In preparation for the deal, Lufthansa Board Chairman Herbert Culmann and the three prisoners boarded a Hawker Siddeley executive jet, which was to remain in West German airspace until the terrorists agreed to a direct swap...