Word: dickered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them "singing.") The foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came here to do good and did right well." Near by, Baldwin ghosts may note with horror, aging flower children -"bamboo tourists"-dicker for Maui Wowie. Thanks to the tourist boom, Lahaina today has three times as many permanent inhabitants (some 10,000) as it did in the 1840s, whaling's heyday...
...medalist once hinted to a shoe manufacturer that he wanted a new car. A few days later he was given the cash to pay for it. At the U.S. Olympic trials last summer, some track and field stars first ran their qualifying heats, then dashed into the stands to dicker with representatives of warring jock-shoe companies. While the athletes and the shoe companies settled on prices for putting brand names into the starting blocks at Montreal, U.S. Olympic officials played with their stop watches...
...expected to reach their highest level (about $525 million) since the postwar boom 25 years ago. Fur sales have grown more dramatically this year than sales of any other kind of outerwear, and still astonished dealers are barely able to meet demand. Says Beverly Hills Furrier Mac Dicker: "It's unreal. I've been in the business for 30 years and never seen anything like...
Even with Liberal backing, the Tories would still be eight short of a majority in Commons. That means Heath might try to dicker with the eleven Unionists from Northern Ireland.* But all of the Unionists are supporters of Protestant Extremist Ian Paisley, who has rejected the Tory-imposed peace settlement for the troubled province. By contrast, Labor might have better luck in garnering support from the nationalist M.P.s. Wilson himself avoided comment on Heath's decision, but another top Laborite spat out that Heath was "a very, very stubborn bastard, just like Nixon...
...route, the trio maniacally distributed money up and down the aisle while reassuring the passengers that they had nothing against them. At José Martí terminal in Havana one of the gunmen disembarked to dicker with Cuban officials; he returned two hours later grousing: "These people here treat you worse than George Wallace or Lester Maddox." The plane headed back to the U.S. and eventually landed at McCoy A.F.B. in Orlando. There the odyssey nearly ended in disaster. After the hijackers demanded to talk to President Nixon, the word came down from Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray that...