Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many men of good will would care to admit. But in the end it encountered overriding objections, and the U.S. gained credit throughout the world for separating itself last week from the conduct of its oldest allies. For as a sovereign remedy, the peace of imposed power takes little account of the cries of the less strong, or the pleas of peoples aspiring to freedom...
These names are deliberately transparent pseudonyms for Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, in this fictionalized account by Novelist Meyer Levin of what he calls the "crime of our century." The real victim of Leopold and Loeb was 14-year-old Bobby Franks, and the dropped glasses gave them away. Only a brilliant defense by famed Lawyer Clarence Darrow saved them from hanging...
...term almost all of the cast had been assembled and issued scores to learn over the summer. Through patronage a bank account developed--to the producer's profound relief...
...adds, "I squandered a great deal of money that I earned as a writer and I lost a lot of it gambling." As a result, "I am head over heels in debt. I expect to get out of debt by writing or not at all. I have no savings account, no stocks, or bonds, no real estate, no insurance, no cash ... I simply have got to hustle for a living...
...Containment Policy, which was designed largely to meet the military threat, will no longer suffice in a situation of flux. Containment must now be translated into positive terms which can play upon Soviet weaknesses and which will take into account the increasing demand for neutralism and economic advance among Asian, African, and Arab nations...