Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House gets its second University-wide blood drive rolling today as campaigning in House and Union dining halls will attempt to line up 200 Crimson pints by the time the state Blood Bank visits Cambridge on March...
...river bank the procession came to a field as different as possible from the glittering Taj Mahal. This field looked like a junkyard. Here & there water buffalo were grazing. The Department of Public Works had built overnight a square platform of brick and cement, three feet high and twelve feet square. At the four corners were stumps of the sacred peepul tree. On the platform was half a ton of sandalwood, mixed with ghi (melted butter), incense, coconuts and camphor. Gandhi's body was raised to the pyre...
Into a branch of the Tekoku Bank, Japan's largest, last week walked a middle-aged man of distinction wearing the arm band of a Tokyo municipal official. He said he was a city health inspector. Would the manager please summon all his employees for a dose of special anti-dysentery medicine...
...with the habit of obedience to authority, lined up his underlings. The man with the arm band produced a bottle of colorless liquid and barked: "Drink this before locking the vaults." No one thought to ask why an anti-dysentery potion is not just as effective when a bank's vaults are locked. Obediently they gulped the medicine and collapsed in agony...
...medicine man slipped into the open vault, snatched an armful of currency and disappeared. In the hospital next day the manager ruefully totted up the cost of his gullibility: twelve employees dead from cyanide, and a loss of about 50,000 yen to the Tekoku Bank. Police were hunting the man of distinction...