Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dictator in lots of 100. The committee still had no visible funds to pay for the tractors, but hoped to find them in 25,000 unopened letters. If and when Castro agreed to the deal, the committee would open the letters. But in order to pay the $16 million tab, each letter would have to contain a donation...
...testing is the kind of nonsense that directors' assistants have assistants deal with in the U.S. But Gleason, who dreamed up Gigot because "I got fed up with seeing those psychological deals where Tab Hunter falls in love with a goat." wanted to do the film on location in Paris with French actors and crew...
...Hollywood, perhaps even more than in Manhattan, going out to lunch is a rite and an art, and in such gin-filled aquariums as the Brown Derby and Romanoff's, the tab frequently exceeds what a strong man could earn in a month delivering milk or teaching high school algebra. But last week it seemed that matters had gotten out of hand. Spyros Skouras, the sovereign lord of 20th Century-Fox, had summoned Writer-Producer-Director Leslie Stevens to a staff lunch. Stevens, whose Daystar Corp. forms a powerful fealty under the Skouras fief, sent a proxy, and Skouras...
...Boswell of the small investor is Garfield Albee Drew, a controversial Boston chartist. He tries to call turns in the stock market by keeping careful tab on the odd-lotter-generally the small investor who buys and sells in lots of less than 100 shares. Mustachioed "Jeff" Drew (5 ft. 6 in. and 57), has an unusual attitude toward his subjects: he thinks that they are usually wrong. Small investors, says Drew, are most wrong just when the stock market is making important changes in trends; they sell when the market is getting ready to advance and buy when...
Still, jazz survived. Smuggled U.S. recordings were duplicated on X-ray plates, bootlegged for fantastic prices (tab for an Elvis Presley disk: $12.50). Musicians copied new Louis Armstrong arrangements from Western radio programs. Students begged visiting U.S. musicians to play rock 'n' roll. Clandestine jazz bands became so common in Leningrad that the Young Communist League formed roving ''Nightingale Patrols" to stamp them...