Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India. She got a job teaching in a school at Mussoorie, 100 miles north of New Delhi, and fortnight ago she sent a note to her mother in the U.S. saying how much she enjoyed being back. Then, one day last week, she accepted an invitation to stay overnight in nearby Dehra Dun with Mrs. Herbert Strickler, 59, wife of the executive secretary of Presbyterian missions in India...
...Overnight, Jim Jeffries became the first of a series of "white hopes," toward whom the prizefight gentry looked to uphold the "superiority of the Caucasian race...
...there was plenty of excitement in "graveyard" bond issues, i.e., defaulted bonds of satellite countries. A flurry of trading sent Polish bonds scampering from 8 to 13, the highest price since 1949. Estonian issues jumped from 11⅞ to 15, the highest they had climbed since 1947. Overnight, an issue of Kreuger & Toll bonds, backed by assets frozen in Hungary, more than doubled in price from ¾ to 1¾. None of them had an apparent value. But speculators were hoping that Stalin's death might shake satellite countries loose from Russia, and that they might...
...want, and we wanted, too much too quickly. Now I know and my friends know that our crime was impatience. Some people turn this around and call it a lack of trust. But it was not that. It was impatience, a grinding desire to achieve our hearts' desires overnight...
...When a Honolulu jury was unable to settle a narcotics case during its first day of deliberation, Federal Judge J. Frank McLaughlin was forced to declare a mistrial-hotels were so jammed with tourists that court attaches could find no place to house the jurors overnight...