Word: belongs
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...birthplace of the potato chip. James Gordon Bennett was moved to entitle it "the seraglio of the prurient aristocracy." To the rheumy rich of the '90s it was "The Spa," and its eggy sulphur waters were just the ticket for constipation and gout. But now the seltzer baths belong to the state, and for eleven months out of the year Saratoga Springs (pop. 16,000) is a quiet upstate New York town with no visible means of support. Then August rolls around, and Saratoga miraculously comes alive. Bottles of Bellinger go on ice, stables are swept out, hotel prices...
...feet as if uncertain how to begin. Then he makes his decision. He puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like a bagpipers' band skirling The Campbells Are Coming. But most often the sounds belong uniquely to their maker, Roland Kirk, who meshes a thrumming beat, a fer tile imagination and an impish humor to achieve an exciting union of the pa gan and the modern spirit - as if Pan were suddenly found piping merrily in a rush-hour subway...
Bevan, a man of chivalrous gaiety and wit, was an intellectual dandy who relished the great world of London where he cut so fine a figure. He believed that he spoke for the underside of English life, but in the nature of things he had ceased to belong to it. "Bellinger Bolshevik," jeered Conservative Brendan Bracken as Bevan lolled in Lord Beaverbrook's drawing room. Unmoved, Bevan retorted that Beaver-brook's Bollinger was better champagne than he was offered at Bracken's house. A good riposte, but was this scene another of "the radiant ambiguities...
...only say that the atmosphere which I found in the fraternities has affected me for my whole life. The student can only be raised by the fellowship of his peers." As for the burgeoning revival of fraternities since World War II (40% of West German students now belong), der Alte maintained that "after the terrible collapse at the end of the war, the rise of such a tradition is of very vital and great significance for all the German people...
Each of these middlemen is assigned by the exchange to "specialize" in several stocks and stabilize their prices by buying when prices are falling sharply and selling when they are rising swiftly. On the New York Stock Exchange where they account for 30% of all transactions 353 specialists belong to 107 firms. Each firm usually handles 12 to 15 issues, though the biggest-Adler, Coleman...