Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold told the General Assembly that the U.N. Congo command was virtually bankrupt, largely because of the refusal of the Soviet Union to contribute, and would have to suspend operations unless someone (a euphemism for the U.S.) anteed up $22 million forthwith...
Emphasizing the Library's importance, Buck indicated that the University cannot afford to neglect it. "The Library, it has been said, must not be allowed to bankrupt the University," he said in his report. "But," he continued, "the University must not bankrupt the Library...
...shows up to make Rabbit see the moral wrong of his desertion that all the weak strands of his character begin to tangle up. The minister is a weakling himself, but he is persistent. What follows is the revolting zigzag course of a weak, sensual, selfish and confused moral bankrupt. He returns to his wife; he walks out again; a tragic incident sends him back to her once more-and again he runs out. Can he go back to Ruth, pregnant and contemptuous of his weakness? When he goes out on a simple errand, all his failings converge...
...CARLYLE MARNEY, 44, fiery minister of the Charlotte (N.C.) Myers Park Baptist Church, practices open Communion and has fought segregation for years. He tells businessmen that "the profit motive is ethically bankrupt." A staunch believer in church-state separation, he wants religious teaching banned from all schools, nevertheless dubs religious opposition to Kennedy "prejudice," and slaps Baptist extremists as "Holy Roller Catholics who are creating an emotional authoritarianism which is far more rigid than Roman Catholicism...
Last week, as the case ground on, neither Williams nor his wife seemed overly concerned about the bankruptcy proceedings. Says Williams, who claims that some of his other oil investments have been profitable: "I'm going to go right ahead. I'm not personally bankrupt. Any oilman knows that just because one company is bankrupt, it doesn't mean a thing." For Mrs. Williams, the bankruptcy proceedings may have one incidental advantage. Her husband may change his invariable diet of "real thick steaks smothered in garlic salt." Said she last week: "I'm so sick...