Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more. He hurried to Washington, pleaded not guilty, and declared himself confident of vindication. But 71-year-old Andy May was a changed man. Required to post a $2,000 bond, the man who used to keep generals jumping asked the clerk humbly: "My heart is hurting me-can I sign something and go to my hotel...
...including Ball's Alleghany holdings) from him on the grounds that even the low price of the $2 billion empire had been rigged too high. Then Bob Young persuaded the ICC to order rail securities sold at competitive bidding, thus knocking Morgan, Stanley & Co. and other New York bond houses which had fought to bar Young from Alleghany out of much fat business once given them by friendly railroads. By then Young's sandy hair had turned white and his self-esteem had become somewhat Napoleonic...
...last year, several now buildings have sprung up, among them temporary housing developments on the sites of Jarvis and Divinity Field Tennis Courts and in the bond of the Charles next to the Business School's McCulloch Hall...
...question boiled down to a matter of severance pay; the 850 remaining British members wanted to get out. It was up to Patel to find the new men who, with the 750 Indians in the two Services, would rule India.* Nehru called twice. He and Patel have a deep bond of mutual attachment to Gandhi and to Indian independence. Otherwise, politically and temperamentally, they are antipodal. Two subjects almost certainly mentioned in Nehru's bedside talks with Patel were the Moslems and the Marxists...
...bond I swear-Stalin: O, swear not by perfidious Albion