Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to stay on indefinitely. Tall, pretty U.S. Cellist Madeleine Foley was canceling most of her engagements in order to remain. Said she: "Why should I go home and play when he may die some day? I'm going to stay here as long as I can borrow the money." Young Pianist Eugene Istomin was renting a villa so that he could study with Casals until next December...
Nevertheless, hundreds of East German youngsters managed to sneak into West Berlin. Many changed from their uniforms into plain clothes for the expedition; while they were gone, others waited impatiently for their return so that they could borrow the clothes. Most of the youngsters, who had been told that West Berlin was starving, were amazed by the food and the other goods they saw in stores. ^They bought as much as they could, in spite of weird warnings from their leaders. These included statements that oranges and candy in the Western sectors had been poisoned, and that West Berliners...
...local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...
...months went by and the money owed by Monti on papers consigned to him mounted to 50,000 lire (about $80), party headquarters grew worried, then angry. Finally the party told him he must pay up. Ludovico ran all over town trying to borrow money; he even tried to borrow from the priest. Last week Ludovico Monti was finally expelled from the Communist Party for mishandling of funds...
...third possibility is to plug up the opening through which many students are now using the athletic facilities without paying anything. These enterprises borrow their friends' and roommates' cards, sign their friends' and roommates' names, and play on their friends' and roommates' facilities...