Word: evens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained in business. It was an ideal arrangement for Frank Costello, who had put up only $15,000; he stayed in New York City and just let the money roll in. One year, they grossed $1,297,580. The Louisiana venture was still an ideal arrangement last week even though slot machines are illegal in Louisiana and Reform Mayor Chep Morrison had chased them out of New Orleans...
...close of the conference, Acheson had said that the Paris decisions would become known in the following "weeks, or even months." In fact, the substance of the Paris agreement on Germany was known last week. Thanks largely to France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman who had set what he considered a sound policy above French fears of Germany, the agreement represented a sizable boost for the young West German Republic...
...evil,' said Beelzebub to the snake, 'and most deadly is your fang; but you cannot wound from afar like the deadly tongue of the slanderer, from which there is no escape, even though mountains or oceans intervene. It is clear that he is more evil, so give place...
Vishinsky had risen to the challenge, and the honors for mordant criticism in U.N.'s pleasant afternoon seemed even...
Hong Kong's population is swollen by refugees from Red China, most of them rich men. Their dollars buy them anything in Hong Kong-Cadillacs, apartments (for which "key money" frequently runs as high as $2,000 U.S.) and even Hong Kong birth certificates ($1,000 and up), which would entitle them to British passports and visas...