Word: dresser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, the day before the SEC okayed the registration and Houston's B. V. Christie & Co. got ready to sell the stock, McCarthy ran into more trouble. Dallas' Dresser Industries, Inc., which had installed $2,500,000 worth of equipment in the Texas Gas Corp. plant, sued McCarthy for a million. Charged the Dresser company: McCarthy had failed to pay a penny on $836,289 in promissory notes signed three years ago. At one time McCarthy had tried to settle the debt for $25,000, but while Dresser was dickering. McCarthy withdrew the offer...
...farewell appearance in Seville's bull ring, Pacote, the best bullfighter in Spain, turns to the candlelit image on his dresser, crosses himself, presses his palms together and prays: "Most saintly of Virgins, I don't ask to be good today. This is not like the other days. I only ask that they come out easy, that they don't snag me, that I may live and be able to worship you. Just let me live. Amen...
...cabins, dresser drawers lock in place and do not rattle; bathroom light fixtures are angled above the mirror to reflect directly in the shaver's face; shower valves are thermostatically controlled to prevent the water from getting too hot. From every cabin, travelers can phone to anywhere in the world...
...shaped bedroom on the second floor of Manchester's Eagle Hotel was jammed and seething. Coats & hats were piled on the twin beds, and people were perching cheerfully on top of the coats & hats. Others helped themselves to the open bottles of Scotch, bourbon and rye on the dresser, or dug into the communal paper buckets of chop suey, chicken and egg rolls on the table. Looming above the pandemonium, with the air of a prophet who has just been slugged by a vigorous vision, was Candidate Estes Kefauver. He moved slowly through the throng, sipping a Scotch highball...
...Reflection. In Dahlonega, Ga., Charlie Elrod explained to police why he smashed the dresser mirror: he did not like the looks of the drunk staring...