Word: tags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roving gangs and mobs of Harlem's Negroes who, in the name of civil rights, loot and terrorize New York City and its law-enforcement officers [July 24]. It is hardly believable that some of the city's civil rights leaders are trying to pin the tag of blame on the city's police department. What is one supposed to do when one is confronted by mobs of bloodthirsty hoodlums...
...arrested while wearing a new coat, the price tag still dangling from his sleeve. A Negro woman lay down on the sidewalk and muttered through her drunken stupor: "They walk all over me in Greenville, South Carolina, and they might as well run over me here." An onlooker cried: "Did you see that? They shot that woman down in cold blood...
...competitive plane, but the appearance of a Russian plane before the West's would be a propaganda boon. A prototype of the British-French Concorde is not expected to fly until at least 1967, and a U.S. one not until well after that. What is worse, the price tag of the Concorde to individual airlines has jumped from $10 million to $14 million each...
...less worth of insect repellent than it had ordered. The Air Force learned that it could safely stretch storage life of the solid propellant for its Minuteman missiles from three to our years, saving $25 million. Not even the old memento of service days, the dog tag, was safe. By ordering tags of corrosion-resistant steel instead of an alloy, McNamara shaved 1.60 from each one for a total saving of $97,000 on the year's supply...
...hurt the party's chances. Harding asked for time to think, ten minutes later announced that he was as clean as a hound's tooth. Harding apparently tried to extricate himself from his love affair, and there is some evidence to show that Carrie put a price tag on it. In one of his last letters, he wrote that he could not "secure you the larger competence you have so frequently mentioned. I can pay with life or reputation, but I can't command such a sum. To avoid dis grace, I will, if you demand...