Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, was chronically broke. A $28-a-month lathe operator, he gave $25 of each pay check to his widowed mother. But a little thing like lack of money never kept Kaoru from his normally expensive hobby-amateur astronomy. Somehow he accumulated the cash for parts and materials, and all by himself he built an ambitious telescope...
...deductions, Bidwell insisted that these were not excessive for a man earning some $200,000 a year. He also argued that the bulk of his business expenses and gifts to charity had not come out of current income at all but out of a $60,000 to $70,000 cash reserve that he and his wife had built up from family gifts dating back to their marriage in 1929. And though Government Attorney Stephen E. Kaufman argued that it was "inherently improbable" that anyone would keep so much of his wealth in cash, the jury obviously did not agree...
...talk about. At a cost of about $11,000 a year, Unilever reimburses visitors for their travel expenses and for the modest birthday or anniversary presents that each visitor is encouraged to give to the pensioners on his list. The only gift barred is cash. "Money may give the impression of charity," says a Unilever executive, "which is an impression we very much want to avoid...
...again-big. She strips the flat. Dean is too plug-nutty to notice that his furniture is gone. With a grin that slits his throat from ear to ear he runs off to tell all his horseplaying pals about the bookie who brought him luck. They get all the cash they can carry and stack the packet on a three-legged lizard whose owner can't even sell it for dog meat. "Eighty to one!" Lana gasps with relief. "Ha! Ha! Ha! It can't possibly...
...birdbrained, spaniel-eyed, llama-lipped pony player; and Walter Matthau has his moments as the big hairball who runs the syndicate-among them the deathless moment when, with a casual flick of his manicured fingers, he announces superbly: "Give dis genulman eighteen tousan' dolluhs fum petty cash." The whole cast obviously enjoyed making the picture, and most spectators will find that the pleasure is mutuel...