Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...side took over completely. On Oct. 23 he quit his job, signing out in the logbook, John Lennon. Four days later he walked into J and S Sales, a gun shop just a block from the main Honolulu police station. Because he had no arrest record, a salesman sold him a Charter Arms .38-cal. revolver (price: $169). "It's the type used by detectives and plainclothes police because it is easy to conceal," explains Steve Grahovac, the store's owner...
...coach in Wrightsville could set off a small panic. When a man named John Robinson checked into a hotel in nearby Macon, local newspapers announced with alarm that the University of Southern California's coach had come to cart Walker away. John Robinson turned out to be a salesman from Huntsville...
There is no variable lighting on the set, merely bare bulbs. In place of lighting changes, Drury ingeniously uses an ironic recording of a public relations tape for Mount Holyoke. The monotone on the tape describes the college with all the functional appeal of a vacuum cleaner salesman and the pretentiousness of a sommelier enumerating his finest crus...
...Segal, a jewelry salesman, voted for Carter "to get the Watergate crowd out of there." But he was distressed by the U.N. vote. "A President doesn't make a mistake like that," he says. He is leaning toward Reagan because "Carter can't make a decisive decision." But some voters are too fed up with Carter and Reagan to back either. Thomas Haughton, who works for the Internal Revenue Service in Philadelphia, has ten children from two marriages. In 1976 he voted for Carter because "I thought he was a dream, like the Kennedy dream...
Iraqis are not reticent about discussing the war, but in a country where informers and government surveillance are everywhere, it is unrealistic to expect honest opinions. Said a book salesman in the souk: "Oh, I'll tell you straightaway that we support the war 100%. Our nation is united against the Persian aggressors. They took our land, and now we will take their lives." The merchant looked up at one of the omnipresent portraits of Saddam Hussein on the wall and handed his visitor a stack of propaganda from the ruling Baath Party. Said he with a smile...