Word: pal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married for money and made more, but Augie still doesn't know what he wants. An intellectual friend tries to guess: "O King David! O Plutarch and Seneca! O chivalry! . . . O Strozzi Palace. O Weimar! O Don Giovanni, O lineaments of gratified desire! O godlike man! Tell me, pal, am I getting warm?" He is. But by this time, war has come, and Augie, joining the merchant marine, goes to New York. He sees Stella there, marries her and reflects that he doesn't envy his brother, "seeing I was married to a woman I loved and therefore...
...Pal. In Washington, D.C., after lending his new De Soto to his friend Thomas Cole, Kyriacos Timotheou took a look under the hood, found that his new engine had been replaced by an old 1950 model, asked police to arrest Cole, who explained: "I put the motor in my car to break it in and was going to give it back...
...appeal of four men convicted in 1950 of the murder of a newsman. The defendants offered evidence that they had been framed by top officials working with the Alemán-created Federal Security Police, an outfit said to have been controlled by Miguel Alemán's pal, ex-Senate President Carlos Serrano. As their story unfolded, Justice Corona interrupted to loose the most scathing blast yet against the Alemán regime by a highly placed Mexican...
...wartime rolls of the Office of Strategic Services, the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee brought up a strange fish. He was George S. Wuchinich, who served as OSS liaison man with the Communist armies of Yugoslavia and China during the war, and achieved some postwar notoriety as pal of Red Boss Steve Nelson. In 1950 he was named before the House Un-American Activities Committee as one of 13 leading Communists in Pittsburgh...
Later, after Ford changed over to a more powerful V-8 engine, he got another kind of note from Public Enemy No. i, John Dillinger, who made his getaways in Fords. Wrote Dillinger, passing through Detroit: "Hello Old Pal. Arrived here at 10 a.m. today. Would like to drop in and see you. You have a wonderful car . . . It's a treat to drive one. Your slogan should be: 'Drive a Ford and watch the other cars fall behind you.' I can make any other car take a Ford's dust...