Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case any spiritual fervor may be lacking, McCurdy has had an outfit of nine runners training religiously at the Grottonwood (Mass.) Baptist Camp since September...
Wilmot's woes started in 1973, when a small Texas outfit that installs navigation and communications systems in Gulfstreams accused Page of trying to take over its lucrative business by, among other tactics, bribing one of its executives with $30,000 and the use of a Jaguar sports car. Last October Page was ordered by a U.S. court to pay the Texas firm $9 million in damages for trying to monopolize the Gulfstream outfitting business. Page is appealing that decision, but testimony at the trial about other Page activities has led to more trouble for Wilmot...
...connection with $60 million in aircraft sales abroad, mostly involving Gulfstreams. According to the SEC, Page gave $200,000 to President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo of Gabon; paid $412,000 to an organization whose secretary was Timothee Ahoua, Ivory Coast Ambassador to the U.S.; passed $900,000 to an outfit controlled by Datuk Harris Salleh, at that time Minister of Industrial Development of the Malaysian state of Sabah; and gave a Cadillac convertible to Uganda's dictator, Idi Amin Dada...
...recently laid-off teacher of English composition from Brockton, N.Y., Kim is also a member of an outfit called the Society for Creative Anachronism, with a "couple of hundred" confreres scattered across the Northeast. Medieval buffs, they engage in "wars, feasts and revels" at appropriate times of the year...
...possible that neckties accomplish a certain amount of symbolic good. A suit and tie make a rather democratic outfit; the richest men wear them, and so do the poorer when dressing up, even if they do not spend $600 to cover their nakedness. Class and regional distinctions are usually evident in choices, however. Consider the outfit, prevalent in Ohio, known as the "Full Cleveland": a bright blazer (red or green), plaid trousers, white shoes, white belt and white...