Word: drawerfuls
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...theft occurred between nine and eleven in the morning in the suite inhabited by Robert A. Derrow '57, Robert A. de Vito '57, and Darcy B. Wilson '58. Only clothing was removed; eight dollars lying loose in a desk drawer was untouched...
...year-old Bobby Kuhel the best times of all were those Sundays when his Dad sent him to fetch the .22-caliber pistol out of his dresser drawer for some target practice at the U.S. Army rifle range. As manager of the Chase Manhattan Bank's servicemen's branch in Heidelberg, German-born John William Kuhel was a welcome guest at the range, and he and Bobby were both crack shots...
...last week Bobby Kuhel went once again to the dresser drawer to fetch the pistol, but this time neither his father nor anyone else knew anything about it, and Bobby himself was not sure of what he was going to do with it. Downstairs, Bobby's father and mother were staring at another pistol, held by a thug who called himself Wally...
Nancy Kelly is troubled by these occurrences. When she finds the penmanship medal hidden in Patty's drawer, suspicion grows sharper, and she wrings a confession from Patty in a shattering crossexamination. Nor do the revelations come singly. Nancy has long had doubts about her paternity, and now her middle-class world collapses as she discovers that her own mother was a mass murderer who had fled justice. Even worse, she must face these mountainous horrors alone, since her husband has been called out of town...
Arriving in New Delhi, U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren and his wife received a warm, top-drawer greeting as a platoon of Cabinet ministers, a horde of judges and a mass of minor officials swarmed at the airport under a broiling sun and presented the visitors with six bouquets of flowers and batches of garlands. It was a command performance. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had been shown a dispatch printed in a U.S. newspaper reporting the cool kiss-off the Warrens had gotten when they arrived...