Word: deadbeat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should we continue to provide services to hippie patients? This is what I call a deadbeat account," Danehy said. For some 20 minutes, he grilled Dr. James Hartgering, the City's Commissioner of Health, Hospitals, and Welfare, about the unpaid bills and the operation of the free clinic...
...Organization, was outraged that not a single one of the 13 Arab League states had paid the assessments levied last September in Alexandria to build a Palestinian-Arab army, and only Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt had paid their dues for the political arms. In response, the deadbeat states demanded that Shukairy account for the funds he had already received, and one member accused Shukairy of spending $8,400 for custom-made suits at Rome's chic Caraceni tailors...
...Deadbeat Defiance. When it came to practicalities, though, many a speaker argued that the rule of law had suffered serious setbacks since the Athens conference. The U.N.-sponsored World Court at The Hague, which aims to settle disputes between nations, is weaker than ever. Since most nations (including the U.S., under the so-called Connally Amendment) reserve the right to ignore its jurisdiction, the court has averaged little more than one judgment a year...
...Dust. But if Herzog is an emotional deadbeat, other characters have plenty of chutzpah. Herzog's wife Madeleine is the perfect man killer with her cold, carnivorous smile, her facial tic and gnawed nails; she strips Herzog of his bank account during the day, ridicules him into impotence at night; after meals she is in the habit of applying her lipstick while gazing at her reflection in a knife blade. Her lover, Valentine Gersbach, is an ex-disk jockey who loves to "yuk it up" with intellectuals, gives Herzog fatherly lectures on how to get along with his wife...
...Saudi Arabians. When a landlord in nearby Remagen could not coax the rent from his South Korean tenants, he went to the Foreign Office and asked that the debt be covered by development aid money earmarked for Korea. The request was refused, but Foreign Office officials began worrying that deadbeat diplomacy might arouse enough adverse public opinion to damage their aid program...