Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sapio sees himself as Tammany's good-will ambassador ("He's to Tammany what Commander Whitehead is to Schweppes," says an admirer). He averages a dozen speeches a week (generally beginning, "I am very happy to be here tonight") before all sorts of groups, ranging from Israel Bond Drivers to the Harvard Law School Forum...
Stevens, said Wilson Jainsen, president of the company, "was renowned as a specialist in surety-bond work." Besides surety bonds, Wallace Stevens had another speciality that brought him worldwide renown. He was one of the finest poets of of a generation whose special need for poetry Wallace Stevens well understood...
Penny Blacks & Pigeongrams. Now a white-haired, vigorous 85, Henry Harmer still sits in on important transactions such as the Caspary auctions. Son Cyril runs the Bond Street office, while Bernard Harmer, the youngest son, is in charge of the busy Manhattan office. The Harmers, father and sons, collect stamps only for pleasure. Henry Harmer specializes in forgeries. Cyril has a collection of "pigeongrams," letters entrusted to commercial pigeon service by 19th century settlers on New Zealand's Great Barrier Island. Bernard collects Victorian "postal stationery," i.e., envelopes printed with grotesque designs and slogans in praise of temperance, penny...
Ditching the Roads. First, by a 221-to-193 vote, the House defeated the Eisenhower Administration's road-building program, which called for financing the work over the next 30 years by a $21 billion special bond issue ("Bonds for Boulevards," scoffed congressional Democrats). Then the House turned to the plan sponsored by its own Democratic leadership, under which $24 billion would have been spent in 13 years, financed by road-tax increases, on gasoline, diesel fuel, truck tires, etc. Against this bill stood the American Trucking Associations, Inc. and its network of state organizations. The A.T.A. threw only...
...detectives subjected Stephen to an additional grilling on every topic, from why he wanted to go to the U.S. to what he thought was wrong with education at home. In spite of such obstacles, Father Huddleston and Stephen went ahead with their passport application. They posted the necessary ?100 bond, then sat back and waited...