Word: whopper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami last fall and set out to halve the county property tax rate, to $4 per $1,000 of assessed value. He gathered 15,000 signatures to put the proposition on the ballot next month. But the best laid schemes of tax revolutionaries gang aft agley. Because of a whopper of an error, Wilson's petition stated the proposed new rate as 4 mills per $1,000, meaning, for example, that the tax on a $100,000 house would be only 40?, rather than the $400 that he intended...
...biggest ad agency. He is best known in the advertising community for being the first "to call a jock a jock" in a campaign for Bike brand underwear ("There's nothing like a washed-out jock"). Other successful MacDougall slogans: "It takes two hands to handle a whopper. The two-fisted burger from Burger King"; "Salada-the coffee drinker...
That's it-grande dame, showgirl and a whopper of a teenybopper...
...investing, some of which it will get back through rights sales, the Times may or may not find its monster-scientists are much divided on the question of whether or not such a creature exists-but the A.A.S./N.Y.T.L.N.E. is already providing Times readers with an old-fashioned whopper of a story for summer reading...
...increasingly able to buy. He loved yachts and grand hotels. Two of his greatest bestsellers, Grand Babylon Hotel and Imperial Palace, are phantasmagorias crowded with counts and chandeliers. To the connoisseur of popular fiction they are still texts; Arthur Hailey, for one, admits to studying them for his own whopper, Hotel...