Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. This wry account of a hapless young Briton's jousts with the military bullies and oafs stationed on Gibraltar during and after World War II shines like a Faberge bauble when compared with the usual assortment of wartime fictional reminiscences...
...Manhattan, Bronzini last week installed an all-double-breasted window, within three days had sold 15 double-breasted suits and 30 sports jackets. At Man at Ease in Chicago, Proprietor Cesar Rotondi reports: "Double-breasted suits account for 50% of our suit sales. It's unheard...
...sold some of them. Lehman has also enhanced its growth and prestige by creating two of the largest U.S. investment trusts: Lehman Corp. (assets: $441 million) and the One William Street Fund (assets: $247.5 million). Beyond these, Lehman Bros, operates an Investment Advisory Service for blue-chip clients (minimum account: $500,000), who pay a minimum of $2,500 for its advice. The service has grown rapidly into the largest (more than $1 billion) run by any investment house...
Sinyavsky and Daniel attempted to convince their judges that such creative effort was not intended as anti-Soviet propaganda. But Soviet officials were incapable of distinguishing the language of fiction from that of subversive slander. They condemned the stories as hostile agitation without taking into account the creative use of allegory and allusion...
...himself was no noble-just a wily, smily commoner with an aristocrat's taste for the high life and an artist's delight in illusion. Inflamed by the success of an earlier minor effort, he determines to fill a hiatus in the historical records with a phony account of the foundations of feudalism in Sicily. He calls it The Council of Egypt. To the nobles he hints that their ancient rights may be demolished by his findings; all at once, gifts and invitations to dine pour in upon Giuseppe. To the King in Naples he insists that...