Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of the four-week-old New York newspaper strike, The Crimson has compiled a page of national and international news. We will continue to offer an expanded wire service until times are back to normal...
...retreat provides the privacy and intimacy that Carter seeks for the summit, especially if the "chemistry" is going to work. The camp is sealed off from the rest of the world by a fence topped with a double strand of barbed wire, and guarded this week not only by the usual contingent of Marines, but also by a squadron of U.S., Israeli and Egyptian special agents armed with submachine guns, shotguns and pistols...
...Holt owe their millions to the modest little 7-in. by 4-in. volumes that decorate racks at drugstores, airports, supermarkets and book emporiums. No wonder that Mario Puzo's latest effort excited such frantic bidding. With paperback rights, the successful bidder would be able to saturate those ubiquitous wire racks?if Puzo's track record is any guide?with one of next year's biggest blockbusters. Stores would be clamoring for every paperback copy of Fools Die they could lay hands on. This, in turn, would give the publisher leverage to persuade sellers to stock other titles...
...their meals-sometimes ordered from an expensive French restaurant-in their suite and paying their bills in cash. The source of the money was a mystery. The father once spoke vaguely to a hotel clerk of owning silver mines in Sweden. But a disciple had recently been convicted of wire fraud, and the FBI was investigating Longo on similar charges...
...Central Bank museum would spend weeks at a site, painstakingly excavating only a few inches at a time in order to preserve all possible traces. Then one morning they would find that thieves had come by in the night and obliterated most of the evidence. Eventually, barbed wire had to be installed and guards posted...