Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing a song but a record. What you gotta do is get these kids to identify. That's how we got Yakety Yak [1,000,000]. Mike was at the piano and I was making tea. He started an exciting riff, and right away I threw out: 'Take out the papers and the trash.' At once Mike came up with the second line: 'You don't get no spending cash.' I felt right away we had a hit-we had a little slice here that hadn't been touched...
Competition in Charlotte. The Knights, wary of complaints about monopoly, were not anxious to gobble up the News and take sole ownership in a town they entered only four years ago. But buying the News made the kind of economic sense that Jim Knight likes to make: fusing the mechanical and business office operations of the two papers will give the ledgers a real lift. As for the editorial side, Jim Knight plans to let each paper keep its individual character, with the News continuing as a folksy, locally oriented, feature-conscious paper, while the Observer moves on a somewhat...
...make-work programs built hundreds of outdoor courts. Inexpensive to play (a good pair of leather gloves costs only $5), the sport now claims some 5,500,000 participants. "When you're young, you play singles and run and sweat," says one handballing Chicago doctor. "Later you take up doubles, and when you're 70, you pick a strong partner and just putter around...
...oral drugs do not always take the place of insulin, though they may reduce the need for injections by either 1) stimulating the release of natural insulin from a sluggish pancreas, or 2) increasing the effectiveness of natural or injected insulin...
...child just worries four times as much about the one as the woman with four children, and it all comes out even." What does make a difference is age. None of his patients were under 20, but many were going on 40. "The nervous system can't take so much after 30, and two hours of screaming is bad enough at any age, but after 36 it is unbearable...