Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sullivans had been sightseeing at Dead Horse Point, a towering promontory that commands a magnificent view of the Colorado River canyon and the surrounding Utah badlands. They had stopped on the highway to aid a fellow motorist. "Generator trouble." explained the swarthy stranger as he asked to borrow Boothroyd's flashlight. Then he produced a rifle and demanded money. Boothroyd threw his wallet-containing $250-to the ground, but Mrs. Sullivan angrily snatched up the wallet and turned to walk away. The bandit fired, and Mrs. Sullivan fell with a bullet in her brain. Then the murderer shot Boothroyd...
Last week Iowa's Coad was hurrying around trying to borrow enough money to square himself with the sergeant at arms. His political career plainly was nearing an end, and Coad knew it. Would he go back to being an Iowa minister? "I don't know," said Merwin Coad. "There are many things I have to think about...
...store in Phoenix in 1870, sold out to establish another in Prescott; at one time or another, there have been Goldwater trading posts in such boom-or-bust settlements as Tombstone, Seymour and Bisbee, where the town's first lynch mob stopped at Mike's emporium to borrow a suitable length of rope. He retired to California in 1885, leaving the stores to his three sons, Morris, Henry and Baron...
According to Texas lore, the reason Dallas has one of the nation's busiest airports is that outbound jets are loaded with Texas businessmen heading for Wall Street to borrow money. The two most notable jet passengers from Dallas to New York last week-flying on separate planes to increase the odds that at least one of them would survive the trip-were bound on a different mission. John Dabney Murchison, 39, and his brother Clinton Williams Murchison Jr., 37, flew to Manhattan not as suppliants but as conquerors. In a coup that outdealt even the feats of their...
...Allow the President to borrow $7.3 billion from the Treasury in the next five years and use $1.5 billion of the money being repaid the U.S. by countries who got loans under the Marshall Plan. Rusk termed this long-range financing, something President Eisenhower had also sought, "the heart of the new program...