Word: thar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's Goal In Them Thar Hills...
Looking for an investment that outshines the rest? The best choices seem to be as old as them thar hills: gold and silver. A study by Lipper Analytical Securities shows that mutual funds specializing in gold stocks accounted for 16 of the top 20 fund performers in the first quarter. At the same time, a group of 14 silver-mining stocks enjoyed a 78.6% rise in value...
From the moment I punch in or step into a warehouse, I feel as if I have entered the Tower of Babel: nothing makes sense. For instance, when my foreman tells me to "cut the grass down thar between that patch of goober weeds and them stink weeds," I am at a complete loss...
...Thar was three bars: Mama Bar, Papa Bar, and Baby Bar. They was all sittin' on a block of ice. Mama Bar said 'I got a tale to tell.' Papa Bar said 'I got a tale to tell.' Baby Bar looked up and said 'My tale is told...
...more purpose in the world than grist for the mills of pulp- fiction writers. It clung on, though, a self-proclaimed "town too tough to die," until that moment in this century when the nation realized collectively there was value in old things: if there was gold in them thar Vermont barns, there was money to be made in Boothill...