Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early in 1952, wearing shorts, sandals and a blue T-shirt, Ian Fleming sat down before a portable typewriter in a beach house on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. "The scent and smoke and sweat of a Casino are nauseating at three in the morning," he wrote. "James Bond suddenly knew that he was tired...
With those opening words of Casino Royale, tough, handsome James Bond of the British Secret Service was born, soon to be hailed by millions of devotees the world over from Presidents (including John F. Kennedy) and princes to postmen and plumbers. All were effortlessly drawn into a magic country of tension and torture, peopled by pliant, pneumatic blondes, sturdy, self-sacrificing friends, and hordes of mean-eyed villains possessing every evil gift except the knack of shooting straight when firing at James Bond...
...Fleming had been born with everything except money. The creation of James Bond made up for that lack. It returned him an estimated million dollars a year over the past decade and permitted the luxury of a London town house just across the road from Buckingham Palace, a vast apartment by the sea at Sandwich, a Jamaican retreat called Goldeneye, and comfortable, carpeted offices just off Fleet Street...
Friday, Maher posted a $10,000 bond to free William Epton, a professed Communist, charged with criminal anarchy...
Hodes said that similar incidents have been occurring in Greenwood quite regularly. John Handy, a local Negro, was arrested the same day and beaten more severely than Hodes. He was also released on bond. A female COFO worker was arrested Sunday on a charge of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Four hours later the charge was dropped...