Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prognosis. In Brooklyn, an anxious patient, sweating out an approaching operation at Beth David Hospital, got a card entitling him to first choice of lots in the Beth David Cemetery...
...goat-bearded front man for both Lenin and Stalin. Many Old Bolsheviks died at the hands of the Czarist and Communist secret police; some died in office. Kalinin was one of the first top men to beat the game: near blind and ailing, he retired last March, his party card unsullied and unperforated...
...Army. The settled hopelessness in his home started him on a new hunt through the hospitals, morgues, missions, flop houses and police stations. He found no trace until he tried the Missing Persons Bureau. A blurred photograph bore his father's name, but no address. A file card said that Joseph Rogon had died of bronchial pneumonia in Chicago's dreary, red-brick Bridewell Prison Hospital...
...biggest drawing card in French sports is a Moroccan soccer player named Larbi Ben Barek. He belongs to the soccer union and thus gets $20 a week and a $16 bonus for each game the team wins. His father was a shipyard worker in Casablanca, and he learned to play soccer bare foot on a Moroccan desert. A Mohammedan, he frequently bows his head to ward Mecca after scoring a goal...
...those 37 years his machine ticked ceaselessly. It kept a card index on all voters, saw that every true believer paid a poll tax and cast a ballot, discouraged all heathen who could not be converted to the Crump gospel. If it had occasionally voted a few dead men, or juggled ballots in the sub-basement of the impressive Shelby County Courthouse, it did so piously and only as a minor emergency measure...