Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because Tito had quarreled and split with Stalin largely on account of Russian interference in Yugoslav army affairs, the U.S. did not press the right that it reserves, under all military assistance treaties, to examine the use to which its military aid is put. But now that the time has come to repair or replace some of the hardware, the U.S. Military Assistance Section in Belgrade (about 40 officers and men) asked to take a look at the Yugoslav troops and installations to measure replacement needs. The Yugoslavs stonily refused...
...cops had tortured him with the picana, an electric goad applied to sensitive parts of the body. The seven cops involved, said the government, were awaiting trial. Some wondered: was it merely a searching for scapegoats, or something more significant, when a police state be gins calling policemen to account...
...Gray's Inn Road set a notable precedent only four years after its opening in 1828: it became the first hospital in London to accept patients with infectious diseases, at a time when other hospitals still shunned them. But last week the Royal Free Hospital was closed on account of illness. The illness: an infectious disease, which had crippled its staff...
...fact and fiction, U.S. executives have always belonged to country clubs, and used them as much for business profit as weekend pleasure. But in today's expense-account economy, country clubs are assuming a new importance to established businessmen and young executives. With the spectacular postwar rise of golf, more and more companies are taking out country-club memberships for their men, both as a means of giving them a tax-free pay boost and as a sound business maneuver. There are few better ways for businessmen to develop new contacts, keep customers happy, sell their products and themselves...
...expands his circle of friends. Eventually, it pays off in dozens of direct and indirect ways. One young Milwaukee advertising man, for example, got himself on a club committee, worked so hard and so well for the committee chairman that he later landed a $300,000 account from the chairman's company...