Word: lien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced with a lien of $61,221 on back federal income taxes, Joe could well use the $300,000 or so (before taxes) a comeback fight might bring him. Charles was willing, if not enthusiastic. Said he: "Well, now, I'd like to see him stay what he is-a great champion and a great man. But if they want to fix it up for me to fight him, I'll sure fight...
...First Lien. In Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Mabel Tarrant charged that her husband claimed he was justified in removing her false teeth to prevent her from visiting friends: he had paid for them...
Actually the terms to Kaiser are fairly stiff. For the $44.4 million, RFC required 1) a lien on all physical assets of K-F, 2) a guaranty for $15 million of the loan by two other Kaiser companies "who must also put up stock collateral having a market value of at least $10 million, and 3) a lien for $10 million of the loan on a fixed reserve of unsold autos...
...class at the end of the year without actually being expelled," are the only contributions to humor made this month by the Bow street rakes. There may, indeed, be some truth to the report that the idle clerks in Roger Kent have taken to "ghosting" for the Lampoon in lien of rent...
When it came to preaching to his army, his officials, and to a whole generation of students, Chiang seldom quoted the Bible. He stressed four old traditional ideas: Li ("regulated attitude"), I ("right conduct"), Lien ("honesty") and Chih ("integrity and honor"). Out of these came Chiang's "New Life Movement," which symbolized the new China; it included strictures against everything from bribery to wiping the nose on the sleeve...