Word: timbuctu
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...year to move to new locations and one-third to one-half will object; only a decade ago, the refusal rate was no more than 10%. Says James E. Wall, vice president of Celanese Corp.: "The balance has definitely shifted away from saluting the company and marching off to Timbuctu toward a greater emphasis on family and life-style...
John Rankin just grinned. "If we can spend untold billions of dollars on other countries," he replied with sanctimonious calm, "feeding and clothing every lazy lout from Tokyo to Timbuctu-then we can take care of our aged veterans when they are unable to care for themselves...
...first of its sort the world had ever heard. President Roosevelt heard it in his library at Hyde Park. A United Air Lines pilot, flying 11,000 feet over Nebraska, picked it up with his auxiliary receiver, relayed it in bits to his passengers. Jimmy's story reached Timbuctu and Berlin as well, putting the Propaganda Ministry's nose completely out of joint. In Washington, Jimmy's mother heard his voice-for the first time in years...
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