Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grocer's Gripe. Every capital in the world has its gripes about highhanded diplomats who use their immunity to avoid legal reckoning. In Bonn the problem is heightened by the fact that some 95 embassies, legations and missions are crammed into one of Europe's smallest, most provincial capitals. High-living diplomats do not ease the tensions with their late, loud parties and cosmopolitan ways. But what really throws the shopkeepers of Bonn into a xenophobic rage is the unpaid debts run up by diplomats-particularly those from nations receiving German economic...
...exasperated grocer claims it took him a year to collect a $50 debt from the Congolese embassy, and a Bonn moving company has been trying for three years to collect the balance of a $1,100 bill from the Saudi Arabians. When a landlord in nearby Remagen could not coax the rent from his South Korean tenants, he went to the Foreign Office and asked that the debt be covered by development aid money earmarked for Korea. The request was refused, but Foreign Office officials began worrying that deadbeat diplomacy might arouse enough adverse public opinion to damage their...
...only grocery store in Walnut, Calif, (pop. 929) and bend Co-Owner Leonard Harvey's ear. "I'm proud to say I got nothing against the Negro," Lewis would boast. "Why, I served with them in the Army for eight years, eleven months and 23 days." Grocer Harvey listened sympathetically; after all, he and the rest of Walnut knew that Lewis was the Negro's champion, and had thereby got himself on somebody's hate list...
Finally Muscari promises the priest he will not die for the sins of the townspeople if one of them will admit the crime for which Muscari has accepted the blame. This never happens, and Muscari goes to his death. The local grocer sells salami and seat cushions to spectators at the execution...
...congressional investigations of the last century make even the antics of Martin Dies seem tame. During the Grant Administration, the Democratic-controlled Judiciary Committee called up a grocer who testified that the President had seduced his sister in his own home. The committee gleefully publicized the story until the grocer declared that President Grant arrived at his house aboard a cloud. When a witness was testifying in an investigation of the Treasury Department in 1837, a Congressman addressed the committee chairman: "I wish you would inform this witness that he is not to insult me in his answers...