Word: loused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entree to the President's office. The staff cutback was attributed to economy; the Democrats still owe $2,400,000 from the 1964 election. Arthur Krim, president of United Artists Corp., was appointed finance chairman to head a $5,000,000 fund drive to pay off the old lOUs and bankroll this year's activities...
Schickele explains solemnly that he first stumbled on P.D.Q., whose existence was known only "from police records and tavern lOUs," while touring a Bavarian castle in 1953. To his amazement, he says, he found the care taker using a piece of manuscript as a strainer for his percolator. It turned out to be the Sanka cantata...
Ford has widespread support among House Republicans, but his success against Halleck is by no means assured. Charlie has been around for a long while, has in his possession a lot of political lOUs, and will certainly not hesitate to call them in. Last week, before Ford announced his candidacy, the House Republican Conference met, fully expecting Halleck to come out swinging against any imminent threat to his leadership. But Charlie sweet-talked the dissidents about party harmony, to the point that one of them, Massachusetts' Silvio Conte, told reporters, "It's as peaceful in there as Miss...
While visiting Puerto Rico, a New Yorker named Jack Golden lost $12,000 shooting craps in a San Juan hotel casino. Golden signed lOUs for $9,000 and wrote a check for $3,000. Then, when he got home, he ordered his bank to stop payment. Golden assumed that it was a lovely legal welsh; gambling debts are not collectible in New York...
...outbreak of World War I, Hoover declared, "Let fortune go to hell," abandoned business interests that were about to skyrocket in value, plunged into a selfless life of public service. Working in London, he helped some 120,000 Americans who were stranded in Europe without convertible currency, accepted their lOUs, and raised enough cash for the Americans to return home...