Word: bank
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Human Soil Bank. The appeal of Peanuts lies in its sophisticated melding of wry wisdom and sly oneupmanship. Unlike such funny-page small fry as Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace or Jimmy Ratio's Little Iodine, its characters are disingenuous and uncute. Charlie, whose peanut-bald head is surmounted by a single dispirited curl, is a junior-grade Walter Mitty, whose highflying dreams of popularity crash in endless ignominies. Charlie's characteristic lament: "Good grief!" The chief scorpion in his child's garden of reverses is a promising young termagant named Lucy, who, with apprentice...
...Sumatra's towering Barisan Mountains, 40,000 troops and civilians gathered on a balmy tropical night last week to hear Lieut. Colonel Ahmad Husein proclaim a "revolutionary government with full sovereignty over all Indonesia." Designated Premier of the new state was Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, ex-Governor of the Bank of Indonesia and a bitter personal enemy of President Sukarno. Cried Sjafruddin: "It is with deep sorrow and sadness that we are compelled to raise the banner of challenge against our own head of state. We have talked and talked. Now we must...
...pretend a trailer truck is coming straight at you and is going to blast you to pieces if you don't get back in line. It also helps to take off for your pass as if you were leaving the scene of a bank robbery. With contestants careening down the road like bank robbers, the wonder was that there were no accidents...
...choir, he scandalizes the pastor, who is devoted to muscular Christianity ("Yes, Christ is alive today, out in the field batting for us"). When Floyd laces into his choirwomen for turning the house of prayer into a den of cake sellers, the outraged ladies sing like hornets. Bank Teller Floyd has always regarded his life as a deposit for his wife and three kids, but when he fails to expire on schedule ("I wish he'd die and have done with"), they up and leave...
Wire Service. In London, a survey published by Lloyd's Bank on the fate of 100,000 paper clips revealed that out of the 100,000 clips, only one-fifth served their proper function; 14,163 were twisted and broken during telephone conversations; 19,413 were used as card-game stakes; 7,200 became makeshift hooks for garter belts and brassieres; 5,434 were converted to toothpicks or ear cleaners; 5,308 were used as nail cleaners; 3,916 became pipe cleaners; and the balance were dropped on the floor and swept away, or swallowed by children...