Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what might happen if the West German Republic cast its lot with the allies. "The signing of the contractual agreement," blustered East German Premier Otto Grotewohl last month, "will produce in Germany the same conditions that existed in Korea." He added later: "It will bring Germany to the brink of a civil war, and of a new third World...
Britain is on the brink of bankruptcy, but the British people, who have lived so long in peril that they have become inured to crisis, seem the last to realize it. For one thing, the crisis in its present dimensions affects the nation as such, rather than the people as individuals; only later will they feel the result of inequalities in a worldwide exchange of goods far from the British hearth. Last week, in a speech that rang with the fervor of olden days, Winston Churchill did his best to shake the British out of their complacency. The crisis...
...Yale, the batting order will be Sciffion, 2b; Walker, ss; Johnson, if; Mathias, 3b; Guidotti, 1b; Stein, cf; May, rf; Brink, c; Corelli or Davis...
...spill it. Honor among thieves is a phrase as out-dated as the cliche about criminals returning to the scene of the crime. In a few months police will stamp "Unsolved" on the folder of Arnold Schuster and tuck it away in an already bulging file. The Brink's case, the biggest lead on it ignored, will get a similar treatment in Boston. And the syndicates will move...
There is some argument that by killing Schuster, the Brink's crew would be scaring away witnesses who could put Willy on ice. But anyone who could testify effectively against the Actor probably was informed why Schuster was killed and was assured that he would be safer taking the stand than shying from it. For Willy, times had not been good. He never did have an organized gang; he had only universal sympathy and respect in the underworld...