Word: wads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Metropolitan." Bing also recalls Callas' husband and manager Battista Meneghini, who insisted on being paid in cash before the curtain rose every night. Callas' fee then was $1,000. "Toward the end," recalled Bing, "I had him paid in five-dollar bills, to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry...
Alex Housman steals cars. At 16, already in trouble because he has rifled high school gym lockers and lifted a wad of bills from the wallets there, he is off in a coppertone Buick Riviera -his 14th car-"joyriding" with a tense joylessness through his slushy Michigan factory town, watching for cops, indulging his quick-fade fantasies of ownership and manhood...
...high point of the American presence, downtown Saigon and Cholon, the Chinese section of the city, were jammed with sleazy bars in which a soldier could get a drink and drop a huge wad of piastres buying "Saigon tea" for the persuasive and elusive hostesses. The new location could make life somewhat complicated for the 25,000 to 30,000 American troops expected to remain in South Viet Nam in an advisory and logistical role. The only direct way to get to the 9th precinct is by boat...
...around it-and then create the product. Jack Cantwell thought it could be done, and when he formed an ad agency in March 1970, he set his staff to thinking up names for a men's cologne. Shortly after, Creative Director Jerry Weinman tossed at Cantwell a crumpled wad of paper that had "trouble" written all over it. To Cantwell, it sounded like a sexy name suggesting that the man who wore the product would be in delightful trouble with the girls who caught his scent...
...from trying to curb Thieu's efforts to "arrange" the election, the Embassy sat on its hands while he prepared to carve Ky out of the race. Last June, when the decisive presidential election law was being rammed through the Lower House (with a wad of U.S. tax dollars), Ambassador Bunker himself was out of the country, attending his 55th Yale reunion...