Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if anyone has ever replied to President Joseph Fitzsimmons' quote of Don Quixote with one by Mark Twain: "Behold, the fool saith, 'Put not all thine eggs in the one basket' - which is but a manner of saying, 'Scatter your money and your attention,' but the wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and - watch that basket...
...Down Payment. In Tulsa, Okla., because they needed the money, city officials swallowed their pride, cashed a taxpayer's check that read: "Pay to the order of the thieves of City Hall, $13.50 for water from a bunch of crooks...
Supermarkets often shunt private labels to bottom shelves, place their own house brands at eye level. National brands are often stocked in insufficient quantities, and money from national-brand cooperative advertising has been known to find its way to advertise private brands in local newspapers...
...Misfortunes of Simone continued when, after World War I, her father lost his money. At the university. Simone strove so relentlessly for her doctorate that she earned her famed nickname. "Beaver." All work and little play did not dull the beaver's tooth for philosophic talk, but the meaning of her own existence seemed empty. Three relationships of the university years gradually opened Simone's eyes to herself. There was her cousin Jacques in whom she saw only a romantic image, although he actually carried on a series of sordid liaisons, finally married for money and died...
...sugar cane is life and life is sugar cane. The laborers work under the brutal sun by day, pour rum down their parched throats by night. Payday is so important that those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read and write. He makes friends: Chinese Otto, who orders a radio but does not know it requires electricity; the village laborers, who engage in a mass wife beating when the wives ask the storekeeper...