Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From monkey-style haircuts and tight pants to knives and revolvers, from the daily bottle of brandy to riots and adventures in the streets, from annoying pedestrians to armed assault on people, and eventually from the 'samba' and 'boogie-woogie' to jail and the gallows−that is the way Brzoza wanted to develop as a bandit, and then travel to West Germany. Who knows if he wouldn't have returned to Poland as a murderer and an agent of an enemy-espionage gang...
...said that under they combined programs now being considered, American students going abroad in their junior year would leave on deposit in this country a fixed amount of monkey that would cover a German student's expenses here, outside of travel and tuition. The Germans would arrange for a similar deposit in Germany to cover the American student's expenses. The total cost of the program to each group of students would be no more than normal expenses of such trips...
...toll mounted last week. One man was brained with a monkey wrench as he lay sleeping. A woman, tied to a chair, was tortured with a carving knife until she died; two stripteasers were sliced to death with razors; four gangsters were shot down in a columnist's living room; a bartender was murdered in his own saloon, and a small boy was killed by a drunken hit & run driver. A few victims survived, including the two teen-agers who were only beaten to a pulp, and the woman in the flimsy nightgown who was mauled by masked intruders...
...Force announced a plan to hire local civilians to replace 35,000 earthbound airmen doing pencil and monkey-wrench work at overseas bases. Operation Native Son, as the Air Force unofficially dubbed it, will free the 35,000 for military tasks, save a lot of money besides. An Air Force enlisted man, costing $14,000 to train and $4,900 a year to keep, makes an expensive grease monkey; a skilled Japanese mechanic is happy to do the work for $900 a year-handsome wages...
...collection shows that it takes more than furry ectoplasm to make a first-class story. Good as the day it was written (1902) is W. W. Jacobs' The Monkey...