Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michigan had missed a state payroll for the second week in a row. Altogether last week 26,000 employees, including stenographers, state troopers, doctors and "Soapy" Williams himself ($866), went without paychecks. In Lansing the State Employees Credit Union doled out interest-free loans. In Detroit the New York Bar & Grill reassured lunchtime customers from nearby state buildings: CHARGE YOUR MEALS UNTIL THE LEGISLATURE PROVIDES PAYDAYS...
...Very tasty," says Bowers, chewing on a chocolate bar, "but it is more expensive than ours...
...along the Rhine. The West German Hausfrau roams through gleaming supermarkets to choose such exotic imports as avocado pears and Chinese litchi nuts, along with the regular order of Wurst. Her leather-jacketed, blue-jeaned offspring, the Americanized German youth, seeks his fun in ice cream shops or "Jazz Bar'' record stores, or atop his own noisy motorbike...
...attracting a hard core of "resident commuters," however, its problems as a commuter center are far from solved. In an article in the Dudley Reporter (the House's dittographed newspaper), a student claims that, for 80 per cent of commuters, "Dudley is no more than an occasional snack bar, and a ping-pong and dance hall for most of the others." He continues: "The same names appear with monotonous regularity in the House Committee, Dance Committee, sports events, at dances, and on the Reporter's masthead. The number of Dudley men who, by being active in the affairs...
...Bar Association. In Dallas, when Charles Crouch was on trial for drunken driving, Prosecutor Paul W. Leech tried to trap him by asking, "Did you see me at the party?", and Crouch answered: "I saw one drunk. Was that...