Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children. Dead cows, pigs and chickens were mingled indiscriminately with tree trunks, telegraph poles, rooftops, household goods. A man caught in his home floated to safety on the inflated rubber mattress on which he was sleeping. The innkeeper, who escaped to the hillside, went back to empty his cash register and was drowned. Just before the water hit, an elderly couple dashed back for their life savings. They disappeared. Of the village's 500 inhabitants, 201 were drowned or missing, and rescue workers estimated that the toll would pass...
...honor of the young couple, the happy Nizam proudly recited three Persian odes that he had composed himself. He garlanded them with flowers, after first pointing out that never before had a Nizam so bedecked a bride and groom, and in a burst of generosity made a cash grant of $21 a month to two local orphanages. The Nizam also promised to build the couple a palace next to his own, and settled on them a trust fund of undisclosed size-something he did not do for any of the five other begum daughters he has married...
There have been troubles too. Kentucky's 1952-53 team was banned from N.C.A.A. play on charges that Rupp knowingly used ineligible players, condoned cash payments to his stars. But Kentucky did not blame the Baron, in fact gave him a vote of confidence...
Congregational Christian Church leaders are determined to give integration more than moral support. They are offering cash. Any Congregational church that hesitates to integrate its members for fear of financial losses can appeal to the Board of Home Missions for a grant, the board announced this week. At the same time, the mission board made two contributions of $2,500 each to the National Council of Churches' department of racial and cultural relations and to the legal-defense fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...pith and moment: a series of educational movies designed to help the West "understand" the backward nations of Asia and Africa. To the regret of those piqued by the prospect of Bardot among the Zulus, Filmaker Levy decreed that swivel-hipped Brigitte's contribution would be limited: cash, but no carriage...