Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coach and, in a welter of lifeless bodies, floated up to sunlight. Lloyd Nelson, 33. of Little Silver, N.J.. a survivor of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Woodbridge, N.J. in 1951 (84 dead), had got a window open before his coach splashed into the bay. From the dangling car some passengers crawled hand over hand up the luggage racks to take rescuing ropes and hands. But Snuffy Stirnweiss died at the bottom of the bay. So did Attorney Fisch. Dead, too, were Engineer Wilburn and Fireman Peter Andrew...
...nation's expense-account economy, nobody is anybody unless he can say "Charge it." Thus, the credit card has risen as a new symbol of status that enables one to rent a plane or boat or car, give parties in nightclubs, even go on a full-blown safari in Africa without putting down a penny. For businessmen it also provides a convenient record of all expenses to show the Internal Revenue Service. Last week the credit-card game provided businessmen with the spectacle of being wooed and fought over by a handful of companies trying to dominate the business...
...hand by signing Manhattan's Toots Shor restaurant, long a credit-card holdout. Diners' bounced right back by announcing a contract with the Stork Club, another holdout. American Express then scored by adding a galaxy of nonrestaurant services: Western Union, Greyhound Bus, Avis and Hertz car rentals, Kinney Parking Systems, Kelly Girls for temporary office help. Amexco spread the word that in any of its 303 international offices, a cardholder could charge a ticket or tour to any spot in the world. In return, Diners' Club, which already boasts such nonrestaurant services as liquor stores and florists...
...described by his teen-age brother, is "the guy who goes through life and nothing happens because he keeps counting his change." On this night, really afraid of love behind his great-lover facade, Stan got hopelessly drunk. Toni, trying to get home alone, was forced into a stolen car by two young toughs, was raped, brutally beaten and thrown...
Rule of Thumb. In Albuquerque, John Murry explained to a U.S. district judge that he had stolen a car to make the journey from Durango, Colo, to Aztec, N. Mex., because "you can't hitchhike in the state of Colorado...