Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later bitterly disillusioned, has since occupied "the middle ground of compassion"-pacifism; in 1943 he was bounced into prison for three months for refusing to do war work. From his hatred of violence was born A Child of Our Times, begun with the encouragement of Tippett's Monopoly partner and "sort of father," the late poet T. S. Eliot, the day that World War II broke...
...bass fiddle until Moreau, his former wife, lures him into a role as confidence man. Her goal is to set up a double swindle that will avenge her dead father, whose career was ruined 20 years earlier when he built a dam of rather flimsy concrete supplied by unscrupulous partners. On an offshore island, the first victim is soon shelling out 40 million francs for rights to a sandy beach he already owns. Then, in sunny Nice, Partner No. 2 (Gert Frobe, the Goldfinger of Goldfinger) finds himself jowl-deep in violence, sham infidelity, fixed races and drugged thoroughbreds ostensibly...
...time a president of the Mississippi Bar Association makes a speech, most Americans might give odds that he would include a blast at the U.S. Supreme Court. But Earl T. Thomas, partner in a top Jackson law firm, produced something quite different last week in a talk to Mississippi judges on "how to improve the administration of justice...
...which is bidding for the Niarchos fleet and is anxious to keep it out of foreign hands. Through a complicated maze of companies, they operate 61 ships under American and Liberian flags. Leading the group is H. (for Harris) Lee White, 52, former Air Force Assistant Secretary, now a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Other principals are ex-Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes (now a General Motors vice president); the estate of ex-Defense Secretary Charles Wilson; and two ChineseAmerican businessmen, C. Y. Chen and C. T. Shen, who made a fortune in export...
...heartless pragmatist--the sardonic, self-interested loner who rolls his own cigarettes, and who just happens to operate within the limits of the law most of the time because he knows he's better off that way. He's so callous he hardly reacts when he hears his partner has been murdered. He doesn't bother to look at the body. Asked if the partner were married, he replies curtly, "Yeah, with 10,000 insurance, no children, and a wife who didn't like him." His only immediate concerns after the murder are to avoid the amorous advances...