Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrated on elegant watering holes in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. As she became perhaps the most velvety fixture in the velvet reaches of the posh supper clubs, she also helped set a trend toward acts with gimmicks. In her present carefully written show, Lisa does not take a shower on the dance floor (as she managed to a couple of seasons ago), but she does just about everything else...
...Geneva, had heard of the brilliant Frenchman's arrival and went to him at his inn to beg him to stay. Calvin declined. Farel roared at him: "You are simply following your own wishes, and I declare in the name of almighty God that if you refuse to take part in the Lord's task in this church, God will curse the quiet life you want for your studies!" Calvin was thoroughly frightened. "I felt," he wrote later, "as if God from heaven had laid his mighty hand on me to stop me from my course...
...shift to private labels has often been aided by the national-brand makers, who offered profit margins so small that supermarkets were forced to turn to private brands. "Take the case of detergents," says pro-national-brands Paul Willis, president of Grocery Manufacturers of America. "There's as much as a 40?difference in price on some sizes at the distributor's level." The reason: manufacturers with more capacity than orders take on a job of putting out a big-volume private label without allocating their production costs realistically...
...coolies would really quiver. Duke knows, if he could burn down a few Wolves in the next rumble. But he needs a piece (gun), and the local dealer in hot goods is asking too much bread (cash). Duke is forced to take a job. Says the local marijuana wholesaler: "I look forward to the time when there be men of wisdom in Washington & I can provide my Staff with the Blue Cross & vacations with pay ... Oh if we was legal Lad. If ony we was legal like the other cigarette companies. Every year I'd plow back one percent...
...tour of Walt's kiddie wonderland that will take in his model of the Matterhorn. a bobsled ride, a ride on a monorail, and the park's newest gimmick: a "Submarine Voyage Beneath the Seven Seas...