Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire line at Suez went right down the middle of the canal, and were ready to drop their little patrol boats into the water to establish legal precedent for the later passage of bigger Israeli shipping. The Egyptians, who insist that the cease-fire line is on the east bank, captured one boat, warned that any others put into the canal would be blasted out of the water. At week's end the only penetration of the canal was by some dusty Israeli troopers trying to cool off in the 120-degree heat...
Distances in Russia are vast, and planes are the dominant mode of travel for tourists, who complain that many of them seem to be converted bombers, with inadequate air conditioning and pressurizing-and that the pilots bank too sharply. Where the cities are close together, a train ride is worth it for the experience of traveling in a deluxe "soft seat" car, at the end of which there is always a samovar of hot tea warmed by live coals...
...Bank of America...
Some of that gap has already been plugged by other combines. In 1964, London's Midland Bank joined the Commercial Bank of Australia, the Standard Bank of London and the Toronto-Dominion Bank to create the Midland and International Banks Ltd. (capital: $56 million). Three months ago, Britain's Barclays Bank, the Bank of America, Italy's Banca del Lavoro, Germany's Dresdner Bank, Algemene Bank of The Netherlands and Banque Nationale de Paris formed Société Financière Européenne (capital: $7,800,000), with head offices in Paris and Luxembourg...
...inevitable showdown, the two men make a lot of threatening sounds but never get around to any blood sport. Two hotheads, they reason, are better than one, and together they ride out to gun down a gang of Mexican bank robbers and split the reward. As Van Cleef and Eastwood close in for the kill, bodies begin to pile up like cordwood, and enough lead is exchanged to re-equip the Egyptian army. Long before the end, the violence becomes a bit like a Grand Guignol show-raucous, incessant and absurd...