Word: pawnshop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plenty of property investments in France, particularly along the coasts-it's a sure thing you're not going to see any armies landing there." In the end, the reader knows a lot about Maria Light. She works in a bakery shop, then in a pawnshop on Mechanic Avenue run by a 70-year-old sex fiend who tries to buy her body for $10 and failing, proposes marriage. She faithfully supports her invalid father-in-law. She longs for a man in bed with her but rejects one after another because they are all beneath her standard...
...I.M.F.'s $15 billion resources, made up of contributions by member nations in proportion to their wealth, has been more than enough to answer all calls for rescue. But in the last five months so many nations have lined up for help that business at the pawnshop has already approached a record $2 billion, nearly twice the previous high of $1.1 billion for all of 1957. The biggest drain came in August, when Britain alone withdrew $1.5 billion in nine currencies to shore up the shaky pound...
...some odd tropical disease, the memory of their torture returns to him. Sol's nights become long, sleepless nightmares; during the day, to the astonishment of his Puerto Rican apprentice, he fumbles through business in a trance, unaccountably appraising brass as gold. In one such August, the pawnshop is robbed; the apprentice-whom Author Wallant. with a disturbingly heavy hand, has called Jesus Ortiz-steps in front of a bullet meant for Sol. In a torrent of long-restrained tears, Sol Nazerman begins the escape from his prison of self...
Jazzy Exterminator. Until recently, it was even harder for anyone outside New Orleans to hear Hirt-mainly because the responsibility of a wife and eight children kept him from hitting the road. Son of a New Orleans policeman, he was given a pawnshop trumpet when he was six, studied classical music through high school, entered the Cincinnati Conservatory on a scholarship. At Cincinnati he noticed less gifted students picking up $5 a night for appearances with dance bands. The money, Al decided, lay outside the long-haired classics, and with the aid of Harry James and Roy Eldridge records...