Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison property but the personal belongings of other prisoners. And night after night, when lights were out. Jim Hudson spoke softly of his hatred for all men-including those who lay tossing on their cots in nearby cells. For these sins against prison society he was called horribly to account...
...Docked official expense allowances. One loser: President de la Guardia himself, whose expense account went down from $750 a month...
...week. He told the National Association for Mental Health: "Even the most startling of these figures . . . refer only to extreme cases of mental disorder. [They] overlook the common, everyday emotional disturbances which can be as upsetting and incapacitating as many of the physical illnesses. When we take these into account, the toll of mental ill health must be reckoned as one in one, for there isn't a person who does not experience frequently a mental or emotional disturbance severe enough to disrupt his functioning as a welladjusted, happy and efficiently performing individual...
...Meanwhile, Sweet Grass created 1,750,000 shares of stock, presumably to cover the merger and be issued to stockholders in D.M.O.D. But actually, said SEC, since the merger had already been paid for in cash, most of the stock wound up in President Ciglen's Toronto brokerage account...
These Thousand Hills is A. B. Guthrie's third, and least successful, novel in his multi-volume attempt to chronicle fictionally the epic of Western America's development. His first, The Big Sky, was an account of mountain fur trappers in the 1830's. The Way West, which won Guthrie the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, depicted the westward trek of Lije Evans and his wagon train to Oregon...