Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police detail who chaperone the public through its roped-off route, and few question the President's right to the privacy of his own bedroom. In Andrew Jackson's day, the public had free access to all parts of the White House. According to one account of Jackson's Inauguration Day: "High and low, old and young, black and white, poured in one solid column into this spacious mansion. Here was the corpulent epicure grunting and sweating for breath-the dandy wishing he had no toes-and the office seeker." On Jackson's first Inauguration...
They were reading Mann once again in Germany. A new novel, a wryly ironic account of a gifted swindler (based on an old sketch), was having a great success. Last March his home town, Lübeck, which had once resented Buddenbrooks, made him an honorary citizen. In May in Stuttgart he opened the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Poet-Dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Almost in spite of himself, Mann had become a symbol of German unity. His 80th birthday in June was the occasion for celebrations in the Western world, but none so satisfactory...
Topic A in Guatemala City last week was the $25,000 check that an importing firm had issued to the nation's President. When the news broke a fortnight ago that Carlos Castillo Armas had deposited the check to his bank account, he promptly volunteered a calm and reasonable explanation: the $25,000 represented nothing more sinister than the repayment of a personal loan to an old friend, Mario Bolanos García, head of Comercial Guatemalteca. But the explanation left some king-size questions: Why was a personal loan repaid with a check on Comercial Guatemalteca, instead...
...home, it becomes a used car, and depreciates 20%. Thus for the first 97 months he has the car, he owes more than the car is worth (see chart). This is a danger period, says G.M.A.C., because "customers who have paid less than ten monthly payments on their cars account for 82% of G.M.A.C. new-car repossessions...
...another $100 a week cash from a secret "expense" fund which many Japanese companies maintain. At night he rides home in a company-owned car, for his company-owned house he pays a token $5 to $10 monthly rent, his wife buys her clothes on a company charge account, the family food comes from company cafeterias, his son goes to college on a company scholarship...