Word: beggaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of the robbery, Inspector Jacques Clouseau was standing outside the bank, arguing with a beggar. The poor fellow was trying to earn a few centimes playing the accordion, while his pet monkey collected coins in a tin cup. Now you will recall from The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark that Clouseau has an immaculate and quite literal respect for the law. This is, in fact, why he is in uniform, on foot patrol, instead of dashing about in plain clothes and solving glamorous crimes. His strict adherence to the book, as well as an unshakable simple...
...characteristically, a great deal of trouble outside the bank. In his liquefied and wholly improbable French accent, he delivers a severe reprimand to the beggar and his "minkey," informing them that they constitute a commercial enterprise and require a license. Since this all takes place while the bank is being robbed, it is subsequently suggested to Clouseau by his chief inspector that the beggar may well have been a lookout. Dumbfounded, Clouseau does not mention that while the robbers made their getaway, he picked up a stray bit of currency that the brigands had dropped from the bundle and even...
...nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, Japan was criticized indirectly for being overly preoccupied with its domestic economy to the detriment of other Asian nations; those countries have grown dependent on Japanese growth for their own prosperity. Fukuda recognizes that Japan can ill afford beggar-thy-neighbor policies. "From now on, we all have to cooperate," he concedes. "But the first priority is stabilizing the situations within each country." Meaning: Japan can best fulfill its responsibilities to others by keeping its inflation rate down, at the price of slower growth...
...Russian wife Irene and their son Andrew, 9, Dolgun has now been in the U.S. for 41 months. Has the America he found lived up to his expectations? Yes, he insists. "In the So viet Union, some of my friends told me I'd be a pauper, a beggar, when I came home. Even Irene was worried that at my age I'd have trouble making a living. But I never worried." In the 15 years following his release from camp, besides working for that Moscow medical publishing house, Dolgun translated many English-language scientific books into Russian...
...just forget about Vietnam. The dead wouldn't mind, the theory seemed to be, and the living could trust in the benevolence of God or the Times's well placed friends to see that the "scenes of blood and horror" that "stun the emotions and make imagination a beggar" didn't recur somewhere else. In the meantime, the Times suggested that Indochina be seen "as an earthquake, not a battlefield...