Word: billfolds
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...eliminate the communist inspired double-talk and admit that for all practical purposes those who serve the communist cause through fronts or elsewhere should be dealt with as communists, although it is impossible to extract a party membership card from their billfold...
...fresh complexion, the clean-shaven face, the clear eyes and confident walk of a free man who has solid currency in his billfold. Sure of the superiority of his ... way of life, he professes condescending sympathy for the natives...
...shake hands, but they grabbed our rifles. One jerked on mine and I jerked back. Then he jerked again. I said to myself, 'This ain't no time to argue,' and let go. They stripped us down and took our helmets. They took my watch and billfold that had $11.81 in it. My girl's picture was in it, too. They took that out and looked at it and kept it. They like girls' pictures...
When society is confronted with the choice of having a full belly and empty billfold or empty belly and full billfold, the full belly will be the choice...
...hospital, where he was pronounced dead, he was given back his name: his billfold showed that he was Laurence Duggan, 43, of suburban Scarsdale. The routine of police process widened out, reaching for the rest of the story. He was an educated man (Exeter and Harvard '27). He had a wife and four children. He had spent 14 years in the State Department, nine as head of the Latin American Division, four as adviser on political relations. Since 1946 he had held a $15,000-a-year job as president of the Carnegie-financed Institute of International Education, which...