Word: cards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paunchy, moonfaced, tousle-haired, Ollenhauer presides placidly over his party's bureaucracy, delivers cautiously hedged speeches, and keeps easy control of his temper. "I have never seen Erich pray, tremble or curse," says a fellow Socialist. Evenings he sips wine with cronies and plays skat, a German pub card game. His chauffeur-driven Mercedes fetches him to work at an unproletarian midmorning hour. A solid and comfortable householder type, if no intellectual giant, Ollenhauer pitches his appeal as a safe sort of Socialist both to Germany's middle-class voters and to workers who now have...
...family of the Albizeschi in 1380, he was ordained a priest in the Franciscans of the Strict Observance at 24, spent 30 years inspiring crowds all over Italy with his oratory. His dynamic and holy hard sell frequently persuaded gamblers to throw away their dice and tear up their cards. Famed for his preaching, St. Bernardino nevertheless re fused three bishoprics; such modesty, one Vatican monsignor slyly suggested last week, especially recommended him to advertisers. Another fact might recommend him even more warmly. Once, when a playing-card maker complained that Bernardino's antigambling crusade was ruining his business...
...fourth floor, there are 30 bedrooms, all air-conditioned, an air-conditioned card room, and the valet service. In addition, the halls are lined with bureaus which can be rented by out-of-town members for the storage of clean clothes. The fifth floor has another 31 bedrooms for out-of-towners, who number over half the membership of the Club...
...goggle-eyed New Yorker could guess from reading the biggest and blackest headlines, the "Mad Bomber" had struck. His calling card: a crude but workable bomb made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery-all contained in a short (2-5 in.) length of ordinary pipe capped at both ends. And, to provide the final touch, the pipe was stuffed into a man's red sock...
...worked for the company for more than 20 years-were told that management would review their proposals for severance pay this week. But many feared that the paychecks they had received only a few hours earlier would be their last. Up on a bulletin board went a black-lettered card: "We regret to inform you that there is no Santa Claus...