Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than Hollywood's best, which they are not. But in competing for a bigger share of the world market Rank will have to turn out more & more movies. Mass-production may force him to use ready-made patterns. It is still a question whether he can keep the Bond Street cut that so many of his films now have...
There is all the less reason for the harsh treatment meted out to delayed payment because of the relative certainty that the University will receive its due. Every student must file a bond before entering, guaranteeing his accountability; he could not skip payment if he wanted to. In such circumstances, the University could afford to give its negligent members the benefit of the doubt and cease regarding them as potential chiselers. If it feels that extra fines are necessary to ensure prompt payment, a second notice would serve both as a warning, and as a partial cover for the errors...
Most Canadians still have no idea what the Pan American Union is. The others ask: What has it ever done? A majority of the Dominion's people still look to London and are likely to oppose any entangling alliance which may weaken the bond with the British Commonwealth. French Canadians want no part of Latin America's troubles. Orderly Canadians regard Latin Americans as Latin folk given to turmoil and revolution...
...which was retreating in the rest of the world still held fast to oil, pipelines and bases in the Hashimite kingdoms. The three who had their heads together in Amman were thoroughly used to working the British way. There was little about the dapper, languid Abdul Illah (who likes Bond Street clothes, flowers in his buttonhole and cocker spaniels) to show that he was the son of a desert king, Ali of the Hejaz, who had been pushed from his throne,in 1925 by Arabia's flowerless, buttonless Ibn Saud...
...interview, he snorted: "Why? You just have to find someone for your cover every week. . . . Well, it's the same trouble we have with guest stars. I'll cooperate-if it suits my convenience." Recently, when the U.S. Treasury asked him to appear at a bond rally, he declined: "Why should I? I pay my taxes...