Word: deeded
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...drives make giving almost painless. Students need only reach reach for their checkbooks or piggy banks; in fact the ease of contributing may detract from the pure virtue of the deed. But on the eventual receiving ends, the hoped-for financial aid is needed and welcome, no matter what the medium of donating. Though undergraduates do not form a very corporate body, students should feel no pique at being canvassed en masse. A concerted drive is the most efficient way of raising funds, and you can name your own recipient of the funds you give--from the Red Cross...
...unit could total as little as 250 cu. ft., now must total 350 cu. ft. Hallways, once unspecified as to width, now must be at least 3 ft. from wall to wall. Equipment must be better. The hot-water heater that formerly developed chilblains almost as soon as the deed was signed now must have a prorated guarantee for five years...
Well, he did have an extra ticket. He considered making a small paper airplane out of it and sailing it into the Charles. But what the hell--why not let a townie go to the game? A warm flush of pity momentarily overwhelmed him as he thought of the deed, but it was replaced by a keener flush of something he chose to call maganimity--the feeling that one never stands as straight as when one stoops to help a child...
...Slavery?* Béraud was a principal contributor to the mixed-up weekly newspaper Gringoire, went right on pouring out his enmity toward both Britain and the Free French-as well as the Nazis -during World War II. Tried after the liberation for collaborating in word if not in deed, Béraud was sentenced to death. General de Gaulle commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. In poor health, Béraud was released after five years...
...dynamiters did $200,000 worth of damage to the interior of the Reform Jewish congregation's Temple, a massive effort by city police and far-ranging squads of FBI brought indictments against five local residents who, if not the actual bombers, were deemed to be in on the deed. The indictments, brought under a state statute that carries a maximum penalty of death, marked the first successful police effort against the bands of stealthy racists who have rocked the South with 83 bombs, seven of them against Jewish institutions, since the Supreme Court's school decision four years...