Word: dresser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when peace came. Around the country, they saw little change in the economic outlook. In Seattle, where the Boeing Airplane Co. payroll affects one person in six, Boeing President William Allen said the company's employment there would remain at 30,000. In Dallas, Economist Fred Carlson of Dresser Industries predicted: "Whatever reduction there may be in defense expenditures will not be enough to make the economy sag." Said Gordon M. Jones, president of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce: "Let the budget be balanced, let the dollar be stabilized, and business will take in stride the curtailment...
Tippy Drake finished her striptease for Bart Elaine, slipped into her clothes, took five bucks off the dresser, and skipped out of the room. It was a rotten way to tease a guy who had had a heart attack and whose doctor had forbidden him to chase pieces of "raw, red meat" down the hospital corridor. Bart lay in bed, clutching the panties Tippy had tossed him, and howling: "She'll kill me, that white stretch of firm-fleshed, tall, beautiful mocking bitchery...
...give the Devil his due, he is a flashy dresser-if one can believe the folklore of the Quebec villages along the lower St. Lawrence. Some of the villagers are sure, as their ancestors were before them, that they have met the Devil socially. To them he is le Beau Danseur-the Handsome Dancer...
...Early one morning this week, eleven days after the escape, 31 New York police, armed with tear gas, a tommy gun, service revolvers, broke into a seventh-floor uptown apartment. On a bed stood Joseph Nolen, naked to the waist, one hand behind his back. Crouched behind a dresser with a revolver was Ballard. Schuer, terrified, hid under the bed with a woman. Two other women hid behind a bathroom shower curtain. As Joseph; whipped out a revolver he had in his belt, police opened up. When the shooting was over, the two Nolens lay dead and Detective Philip...
...woods to sit out the campaign. But last week Joe was campaigning for his political life. He received reporters in Milwaukee's Hotel Schroeder, where he walked around in his shorts, showing the 2-ft.-long scar of his operation. Pouring warm Martinis from a bottle on his dresser, Joe announced: "It's going to be an awful rough fight...