Word: ams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regularly every month Joanovici sent off a check for a million francs to the French treasury, boasted: "I am France's most conscientious taxpayer!" Admitted a business rival: "Armed simply with a telephone, Joanovici practically controlled the world price of copper scrap."
In November 1957 Joanovici got police permission to pay a visit to his mistress in Paris. He was not seen again; but the Minister of the Interior received a letter in which Joanovici "regretfully announced" that "I am not able to earn enough money to reimburse the state . . . therefore I...
"Life doesn't hang on the result of a basketball game, but it seems like it when you play Rupp." Rupp himself cares little about the effect his self-centered personality has on others. Says he: "I am not engaged in a popularity contest. I want to win basketball...
Wrote Admiral Shima, in English: "I am deeply impressed by your spirit of study in the war history, and am glad to answer your question. It is happy for me to think if my explanations written on the attached papers would be useful to you." The admiral went on testily...
Soncor Bird. Indian children, when they are not worm hunting, turn out willingly for school, before long learn to write respectable essays. One of them: "I am the soncor bird. I live in the forest where there are no people. I eat the pasarochllom seed. Wherever I see the pasarochllom...