Word: boons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palais-Royal garden are not as loud as they once were. Her constant companion is pain-"pain ever young and active, instigator of astonishment, of anger, imposing its rhythm on me, provoking me to defy it"-but she will not blunt it, for pain, too, can be a boon to one with an "instinct for the game of life...
...democracy," said he, "does not lie in a central police that is too strong but in local police forces that are too weak." In day-to-day police work, the lack of liaison between forces-more than 50% have fewer than 350 men-inevitably helps the criminal. Another boon to careful crooks: a law by which police are only allowed to file fingerprints of convicted criminals, not of suspects...
...fuzz, Charlie Goons, Charlie Nebs, blue boys, bluebirds, do-right daddies. Policemen. shoe. Plainclothes detective. snifter. Police dog. rosewood. Policeman's nightclub. fall. Prison term. charge account. Bail bondsman. woogy. Quarrel (verb). gin time. Time to fight. But life is not all sorrow: fox, flavor. Pretty girl. ace boon coon. Girl friend or buddy. short. Automobile. ragtop. Convertible. stallion. A man who is handsome or husky or prosperous; also, a buxom woman...
Elated by last week's general ruling, Hill made plans to press on through the courts for an injunction against WPAZ. "This is a boon to every newspaperman who has had his stuff swiped," he said. "This lifting of stories was just like getting my pocket picked." Some other Pennsylvania editors agreed, including those pestered by opposition papers who do not bother to do any reporting on their own. For the Supreme Court made it clear that its ruling was a warning to newspapers as well as broadcasters...
...Brash Intruder. Most cities around the world are delighted to have a Hilton, and scores vie for them. A Hilton is a boon to the tourist business, since many Americans (who make up about 50% of all Hilton's guests) will go more readily to a city where they can find a modern hotel with a reassuringly familiar name. Egypt's take from tourism increased $12 million a year after Hilton moved in; Turkey gained $2.5 million in foreign exchange. A Hilton usually forces other hotels in the area to improve their standards (their celebrated old-fashioned personal...