Word: pincher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Lucy decides that the bank needs to enhance its image with a celebrity depositor, she sets out to enroll the master penny pincher himself, Jack Benny...
...affair began four months ago, when Chapman Pincher, defense correspondent for the Daily Express, published an article claiming that thousands of cables sent out of England by private citizens were regularly being made available to the security authorities for scrutiny. No sooner had the story appeared than Wilson accused the Express of ignoring two "D Notices"-government memorandums requesting newspapers not to publish specific items of secret information in the interests of national security. Nonsense, replied Express Editor Derek Marks, there was no D Notice involved. Every paper on Fleet Street echoed his scorn...
...Minister did neither. Having failed to indict the Express, he simply switched his attack to Sammy Lohan. He issued a White Paper accusing the longtime civil servant of not having tried hard enough to stop publication by the Express, and of failing to warn his superiors in time that Pincher's article was about to be published...
...Since he was under attack, he said, rather than follow the usual Prime Minister's procedure of opening the debate, he would end it. By that neat bit of parliamentary footwork, he assured himself the last word. When he took the floor, he repeated his accusations. Lohan and Pincher had been much too friendly, he said. Then he recalled that Lohan had been the subject of a security check back in 1964. There was no time left for questions, and Wilson won a strictly party-line vote of confidence...
...dreamer and a vision ary who talks constantly about the way-out future, yet he is also an intensely practical man who has made realities out of many of his early dreams. Immensely wealthy and forever faced with decisions about spending millions, he is nonetheless a penny pincher who makes waiters and taxi drivers scowl at his meager tips, is indifferent to carrying cash (his secretary presses pocket money on him just before he goes on every trip) and always takes a single room rather than a suite when he is staying in a hotel. He is often...