Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outer-space visitors, no insect mutations, nothing from the black lagoon, just a plain old-fashioned maniac. I was too scared even to remember his name...
...they had one as London newspapers suddenly began to blaze with headlines about the strange stock machinations of one Harry Jasper and the 450-odd "companies" of which he is a director. On the London stock exchange, dealings in $55 million worth of securities associated with Jasper's name were summarily suspended; day after day scores of worried investors clustered outside the offices of a Jasper-linked building society that had apparently put more than $10 million of its capital into questionable loans...
...left the bungalow, a monk in saffron robes approached the Prime Minister on the veranda. While Banda bowed low in the Buddhist greeting, another man in monk's robes drew near and whipped out a .45 pistol. As the Prime Minister cried out his wife's name, "Sirima! Sirima!" his assailant fired again and again. By the time a sentry brought the assassin down with a wound in the thigh, four bullets had pierced Banda's liver, spleen and large intestine. Next morning, after a five-hour operation, Solomon Bandaranaike died...
...successor to the hapless Maxwell H. Gluck of Manhattan, who, shortly before his departure for Ceylon, won nationwide jeers-and new U.S. fame for Bandaranaike-by admitting to the Senate that he could not "call off" the Ceylonese Prime Minister's name...
...attorney general, had made it impossible for the Friends to bring suit against the Corporation until now because George Fingold, attorney general until 1958, had refused to press the case. However, Edward J. McCormack, Fingold's successor, agreed last year to bring the case to court in his name...