Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charming London's nobs and snobs and captivating its kept women. His companions ranged from "Blasted Bet" Wilkinson, a "sad profligate girl" who was an ornament of Wetherby's, an inn where Hickey watched a battle between two half-naked women (he did not approve), to "Silver Tail," whore-in-residence at a sporting tavern, and Fanny Temple, the jeweled mistress of an elderly townsman...
...tough babies," few are now left in Katanga. Most were removed by the U.N.; others quit when their pay and allowances were cut and their authority reduced. Never more than 700 in number, their strength has shrunk to approximately 100. Around this nucleus has formed a rag-tail army of European civilians-not so much mercenaries, says one U.S. correspondent, as minutemen...
...measure a corridor only to find that their measuring tapes are blank. A couple have a growing corpse in the next room, and its huge foot finally pops open the interconnecting door. Later, it becomes a balloon and floats away. A prancing prostitute wears a pony tail where a pony does, making her the first whorse in theatrical history. She is a relatively soothing vision compared with the whore seen through a keyhole who discards her clothes and then removes her cheeks, her eyes, and the rest of her body down to the skeleton...
...Tail Chasing. Unilever is a coalition of once bitter competitors. The English branch was started in 1884 by William Hesketh Lever-later Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles-who left his father's wholesale grocery business to open a soap factory with his brother. With intensive advertising and merchandising that was ahead of his time, Lever made his Sunlight brand the world's leading soap and gathered together an industrial complex based mainly on products from fats and oils. Meanwhile, in an overlapping segment of the fat and oil industry, two Dutch margarine-making families...
...from Britain and Holland), the ex-competitors set up Unilever Ltd. and Unilever N.V. (for Naamlooze Venootschap, or limited liability) as two separate holding companies that divide Unilever's assets but pool its profits. Each has a board of directors that controls the board of the other. This tail-chasing organizational scheme works only because the same men are on each board. Although Unilever Ltd. Chairman George Cole, 55, and Unilever N.V. Chairman Frederik Jan Tempel, 61, run the company from adjoining offices. Cole-a husky. low-key executive who started out as a $4.20-a-week junior statistician...