Word: carding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advance Proof. In San Antonio, when a bandit showed him a card that said "Hand over all the money or I'll kill you." Adolph de la Pena, manager of a branch office of the San Antonio Savings & Loan Association and author of a forthcoming booklet called What to Do When Robbed, handed the crook $1,200 cash, stood quietly as the bandit left...
...housework. Occasionally one of the students rang his doorbell late in the afternoon and asked if Professor Greg was free to help him with a research problem on which he was working. Invariably he was invited in and given tea and macaroons, and from some invisible card file in his head Professor Greg listed all of the authorities who might prove useful...
...been scattered. He lives on in a desolation of scene and spirit that the French, under the fashionable name of existentialism, have jazzed up as something to be talked about; here it is something to be felt. Fury rejects, out of his own dumb innocence, every kind of forged card of identity offered him. He finds himself redeemed in a trance of love. That part of the book is pure corn-a simple and nourishing product...
...after its author's thirty-first birthday. He could still pass for an undergraduate, showing up for a drink in a herringbone tweed jacket, button-down shirt, and dark slacks: a slightly-built undergraduate with an impressively thick Southern accent. Surprisingly, the barman neglects to ask for his draft card...
...CREDIT CARD will be offered by Chase Manhattan Bank, second-biggest U.S. bank (No. 1, Bank of America), for use in New York City retail stores. Card holders will be charged nothing if they pay all bills each month, but can delay payments up to five months for charge of 1% of unpaid balance. Retailers will pay 6% service fee to bank...