Word: depotism
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...Awash in drink and glory, Newman finds his fingers filling up with whisky, and lets Gleason clean him out. Then, like all the fallen heroes in the legends, he goes down into the underworld. At an all-night coffee counter in a Greyhound bus depot he meets a puffy-pretty alcoholic (Piper Laurie), huts up with her and, whenever he needs money, hustles suckers in low poolrooms where he is not known. One night he takes the wrong chump. Four wharf rats gang him and break his thumbs-a mythological emasculation if ever there was one. Soon after that...
Under the depot system it is virtually impossible for a student to receive an extra bundle, as sheets are given only to students registered for the weekly plan who pick them up in person and have their names checked off the list...
...boys were arrested at a Woolworth store, and the others at a Greyhound Bus depot after they had failed to heed advice from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to protest at a state institution instead of on private property...
...issue was the fort of St. John the Baptist, built at Ouidah on the coast of Dahomey in 1680 as a depot for ivory, gold and rubber. It was almost destroyed in the 19th century when France conquered Dahomey, but the French finally sealed for limiting the Portuguese holdings there to the fort, a residency building and some surrounding gardens. When Dahomey won its independence from France last year, it asked Portugal to turn the tiny enclave into an embassy or consulate. Lisbon bluntly refused, and continued to administer Fort St. John as a full-fledged colony, defended...
...landmarks have had as many incarnations as Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Converted from a rail depot by P. T. Barnum in 1873, the Garden in 1890 moved into new quarters that were designed by Stanford White, the great architect who was shot to death on its roof garden 16 years later by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who resented White's flirtation with Thaw's showgirl wife. In 1925 White's Garden was razed, and a new one erected across town from Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. Here, over the years, Joe Louis stiffened...