Word: touting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME was a far better magazine before this obsession and compulsion to tout for the Israeli lobby...
...basement of Bridgeman's Restaurant, the drivers and their backers were trading tales and plotting strategy while downing tumblers of bourbon and Grain Belt beer. They also mulled over the tout sheet of Local Handicapper Duane Krause, who goes by the pen name "Timber Savage." Savage and most of the smart money favored George Attla, a lame, one-eyed Athapascan Indian from Fairbanks, Alaska. Others leaned toward Harris Dunlap, a former art teacher from Bakers Mills in New York's Adirondacks...
...House bill presently pending carries out the recommendation of the Highway Beautification Commission that a distinction be made between those signs that simply tout nationally advertised products (cigarettes, whisky, soft drinks, etc.) and those that provide useful directional information as to where motorists may find needed roadside services (restaurants, rest rooms, automotive services, motels). According to two nationwide polls conducted for the commission, a substantial majority of the American public desires that such a distinction be made and does not desire the total removal of such information...
...week as, in her capacity as mayor of the little Norman village of Reux, she prepared to wed her son David, 31, to Italian Heiress Olimpia Aldobrandini, 18. After the public town-hall ceremony and a religious service, the megamillion merger was to be toasted by the pick of tout Paris, many of them brought to the baronne's cháteau by special train. Solving such problems as whether to serve Pol Roger or Moët et Chandon (solution: serve both) and the arrangement of bushels of country flowers was at least as exhausting as Mayor...
STRATFORD, Conn.--This summer marks the 20th season of the American Shakespeare Theatre, as the American Shakespeare Festival rechristened itself a year ago. The program and publicity tout this as the "20th anniversary," which it is not; that, of course, will fall next summer...