Word: checkbook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsylvania says that in one year he received phone calls or letters from ten governors, as many Congressmen, and a host of board chairmen, all interested in pushing candidates. He has also been offered bribes ("O.K., how much do you want?" demanded one father as he whipped out his checkbook), has seen another father offer the university $3,000 if only it would take his son in. In Washington, D.C., the wife of a State Department official is even planning to move to France so that her two sons can learn French and German and thus have an advantage when...
...they will be basically similar to mine, and he will sigh with regret that an era so good, so rich, so colorful, so filled with giants and genius and laughter, should have passed away forever--and then he will fumble in the lower drawer of his desk for his checkbook...
Wielding a checkbook instead of a racket, John Albert Kramer promotes professional tennis with the same drive and skill that once made him a champion. In recent years Promoter Kramer has used his checkbook to buy the services of many a top amateur star, and has repeatedly riddled amateur ranks and Davis Cup hopes. Last week Jack Kramer signed top U.S. Amateur Tony Trabert, 25, to a pro contract. He was also bidding strongly to get the Australian stars, Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, into the pro ranks...
...everyone I know-are predetermined. We have certain payments we have to make-house, car, payments for food, clothes for ourselves and our three children. It doesn't take a slide-rule budget to make those payments. Our biggest concern is where our money goes, and the checkbook record satisfies that." The major exception to the new pattern is among the newlyweds, most of whom are trying to make a solid start in life on a comparatively small income, and are eager to make a budget work. They enthusiastically figure out their own budgets; only a few of them...
Knight. When he had finished, the pen, the checkbook, and the smile on the prospect's face had vanished. Goodie left emptyhanded...