Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parks, lakes and other public facilities. When Woodbridge was ready for unveiling last June 20, more than 12,000 prospects turned up, and a lottery had to be held to choose buyers for an initial block of 350 homes priced at $50,000 to $95,000. Most jumped several thousand dollars in market value as soon as the buyers moved...
...assemble these thousand-plus pages of bestseller, John Toland interviewed a host of adjutants and field marshals, secretaries and doctors, even the Führer's faithful chauffeur and pilot. Perhaps partly for that reason, the book is lumpy with anecdote and short on understanding...
...insists he once saw then Ambassador Kim Dong Jo stuffing $100 bills into white envelopes. Kim's attaché case was "bulging with bundles of $100 bills. There must have been several hundred thousand dollars in that briefcase. It was an astonishing sight." Says...
More than a thousand fascinated Soviet citizens-a capacity crowd-were suddenly herded out of a U.S. Bicentennial exhibit in Moscow's Sokolniki Park last week. Soviet officials reported that a bomb was set to explode in the exhibition hall. The show, which depicts U.S. life, culture and history, has been drawing record throngs since its mid-November opening. Working with nonchalant ease, a bomb squad failed to find anything resembling an explosive, but the exhibit was forced to shut down...
...stupidity (after all who but a blind, misogynistic male would prefer the company of gruff, hoary men to the enlightened grace of Minerva's daughters?), it is also a case of overt hostility, nothing short of predatory masculine regression. We have seen the results of this barbaric intransigence--four thousand years of patriarchal domination, constant war, social oppression, genocidal atrocities too numerous to mention. Therefore it is the height of masculine imbecility, if not worse, to even compare the exclusively feminine 'Vestal' with the barbaric regression of male-only chauvinism. Anyone with the slightest background in anthropology knows that...