Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knowledge in such fields as lunar geology, as yet practically unexplored. The project is full of unknowns, threatened with unimagined perils, and it calls for money in war-sized chunks. Before the first American flies to the moon, Brainerd Holmes will have to spend at least $20 billion. The tab may mount, without surprising anyone, to $40 billion or more...
...with latest comic strips so hips for dying, fires the moist puts out the hots so dearth of plenty is merryment for Milesians, prying apart the union of Sky and Earth, these scaps under Anaximander made a meander of elements to a four-square jig of fire-water called "tab 's' to be inserted in slot 't'"--in short, a fence "apeiron" with seeds tied hatching to its string, knitting the cold wet hamburg of the world to clay and fleshing it with glaze, an onion ring sliced for a sky that curdled, by fire hurled...
...game that counts; it's whether you survive." This is how a friend of John Kennedy's describes the problem of matching the "vim and vigah" of the Kennedy clan at play. Not since Teddy Roosevelt has the U.S. had such an active First Family-and the tab for being a Kennedy guest is often a heart-pounding, muscle-aching round of activities. Last week, like many other Americans, the Kennedys were deep in vacation plans, and training for vacation as if they were about to be landed on the primitive beaches of Borneo...
...electronic snooper, viewers could keep tab on which tenant was being besieged by bill collectors, which girls were going out with what boys. In one building, a married tenant whose wife was away was caught, on Channel 4, escorting a shady lady through the lobby. In the University Apartments on Chicago's South Side, the building's bachelors now enter and leave through the basement. Said one unmarried woman resident: "If you come home late from a date and the boy wants to kiss you good night in the lobby, you can almost feel all the eyes watching...
...chair; and he has the attitude of a man who is just about to dash for a train. He is a chronic door opener and reacher-for-the-check. He generally keeps several $100 bills in his wallet so that he can pay cash for the dinner tab wherever he eats...