Word: jewells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime star salesman for the Gruen Watch Co., Teviah Sachs, 49, knows the watch business as intimately as a watchmaker knows a 17-jewel movement. But when Sachs offered to put up $100,000 of his own money two years ago, to keep the bankrupt Waltham Watch Corp. from closing, it looked as if he had let his prudence run down. In return for his investment, Sachs got 1) 400,000 shares of common stock, 2) a chance to boss the reorganized company† as president, and 3) a suit from protesting stockholders. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court tossed...
...bedroom. My brother was moving a little. I reached over the bed and shot him again. I don't know how many times I shot my sister. I dragged my mother into a bedroom and closed the door. I found the keys to the car in a jewel box on the dresser...
...Enduring Honor. In postwar Britain, it was George's constitutional duty to approve legislation that created the welfare state and wrested from the crown its brightest single jewel, the Indian Empire. Yet in drab, austere, Socialist Britain, the popularity of the monarchy reached a new zenith. Britons clung to the royal family as the last source of traditional color and ancient ceremony. And the royal family was something much more, though more intangible: the visible embodiment of good form-what the British call "decency." King George's quiet courage, his unostentatious persistence in meeting the everyday duties...
...newspapers screamed the details of Manhattan's great $114,800 jewel robbery (see Crime). Reporters overreached themselves to get something funny out of groundhog day. In New Haven, Conn., a "beautiful blonde divorcee" was sued for $25,000 worth of alienated affections. Politics spun their plots and counterplots and moved toward the inevitable day of decision. The stock market "ended the week on a firmer note." Even the latest crisis in Europe-serious as it was-had the ring of old cut glass: Germany and France were feuding about the Saar basin...
...Just Froze." It was one of New York's biggest jewel robberies in years, and the newspapers were duly respectful. "Perfectly executed," said the Daily News...