Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bathed in sweat, his head reeling, he huddled at the foot of the altar until the church was opened at dawn, then crept out with the ornaments wrapped in a parcel under his arm. Said Sanchez last week: "I wanted to build at home an image of the Virgin and Child, decorate them with the jewels, then adore them when they behaved well, and spank them when they behaved badly...
...Pack of Picket-Picketers. Nobody faced starvation or even malnutrition, but some foods were almost impossible to get (although the striking stevedores were unloading relief ships from the mainland at the usual rates of pay). A few bags of potatoes and onions shipped by parcel post were gobbled up at the fancy price of 25? a pound. Rice, a staple of Hawaii's diet, was scarce. There was barely enough canned milk to feed the babies and scarcely enough feed to keep livestock and chickens alive. Mrs. Dorothy Lai had to close her little chop suey joint for lack...
Jail, exile, violence and intrigue had been part & parcel of Kim Koo's life for more than half a century. At 19, he killed a Japanese policeman in Korea, served several years in prison. Later Kim Koo went into exile in China, further enhanced his reputation both as an intense Korean nationalist and ruthless political terrorist: To friend & foe alike, he became known as "The Tiger...
...hurry. The guides, usually former Government officials or ex-Congressmen, know or claim to know the right people. For a retainer and 5% on the gross of any contract obtained, "influence" will be put to work. Few officials will admit that such influence exists, although it is part & parcel of the Governments patronage system. Only last month Defense Secretary Louis Johnson denounced the five-percenters and denied that influence counted at all; anybody, he said, could get a federal contract with the right...
These are part & parcel of the Texas story, which TIME'S editors have been telling you about as the Texas boom has developed. Recently, Thomas Griffith, TIME'S Senior Editor for National Affairs, and Robert Elson, chief of TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian News Service, went to Texas to see for themselves what is going on there. They were taken in tow by William Johnson, head of our Dallas bureau...