Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story worthy of the thousand and one Arabian nights, and the British press played it with grisly gusto. ROYAL FAMILY KILL PRINCESS WHO ELOPED was the headline in the Observer, which spurred competing papers into ferreting out the lurid details. According to first reports, the tragic story involved a Saudi Arabian princess called Misha who married a commoner, thereby incurring the wrath of her princely grandfather; she was shot and her husband beheaded. Leading the Fleet Street pack was the Daily Express, which published some blurry pictures that purported to show the beheading of Misha's lover, taken...
...typical of man to perform unsurmountable feats to conquer space, only to immediately pollute it. Perhaps scientists will soon devise ways to transport our garbage and wastes into space to form a "spectacular" a thousand times better than that which Astronaut Schweickart witnessed...
Richard Dreyfuss, who first gained recognition for his role in Robert Altman's "American Graffitti," will accept his award on February 22, opening the night of the Hasty Pudding's "A Thousand Clones," the Hasty Pudding announced yesterday. He is the 12th recipient of the award...
...always earned money as a writer; it was like waiting tables," Crichton added, "I could write a fifty thousand word thriller in a week, ten thousand words...
...sportswriters and for speaking engagements that help the Cowboys' thoroughgoing public relations campaign. The same sense of detail that marks computerized scouting can be found in every phase of the Cowboy operation. The N.F.L.'s largest radio network, 133 stations, beams Cowboy games from Key West, Fla., to Thousand Oaks, Calif. A weekly newspaper published by the club has a lavish freebie list?including college trainers, so that prospects hanging around waiting for the whirlpool will have the Cowboys to read about...