Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...end he wound up 45 years in the Navy with a chestful of decorations and five-star fleet-admiral's rank. He said: "Let the younger fellow's take over." and Bull Halsey's officers-Forrest Sherman, Arthur Radford, Mick Carney, Arleigh Burke-did. He put in a stint for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., launched but lost a fund-raising drive to save his old flagship Big E from the scrap heap. "Remember!" he rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave...
...flashy Grassi asked Allen for a loan of $30,000 for a month, saying it would save him the trouble of bank charges. Allen obliged with a check drawn on the American Express bank in Rome. Punctually at month's end, Grassi repaid it. After a second $30,000 loan, which he also repaid promptly, Grassi had Allen completely gulled. Grassi rapidly obtained three successive "loans" of American Express funds totaling an incredible $670,000, and Allen concealed the transactions...
Under the private school plan, all this would end abruptly-a critical loss of social services throughout Georgia. The private "system" would be strictly on its own, with only tuition grants for support. It could not possibly take over the public system's job. It could not buy enough school buildings from the state, because of reversion clauses specified by the original land donors; it could not begin to pay for new buildings. It could not keep teachers in the state during the changeover, or raise salaries high enough to attract new ones, or curb grafters with paws...
...week's end. Chief Wood and six firemen fell sick. Doctors at first feared a dangerous late reaction to the fumes, which can cause suffocation, rated the men lucky that this did not develop...
...jabbed, barbed by the purple shaft or the maroon harpoon. In despair he feels clanked or clutched. He has a similar feeling if a girl merely keeps him in the club (dates many boys and favors none), though it is only fair to add that such girls often end up clawing the wall ("whatever that means," Dr. Boone says delicately...