Word: points
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point Crouch told of taking a trip with a Communist named Harvey. "Well," joked Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, "maybe it was Harry Bridges you were riding with. Stand up Harry-let him have a good look at you." Harry Bridges slouched amiably to his feet. "No," said Crouch, "he was heavier built...
Limited Extent. Gist of the 77,000-word, 17-point indictment was that Erich von Manstein had permitted atrocities in areas under his command; had condoned the shooting, gassing and drowning of Jews, gypsies and other minorities, the execution of Russian soldiers, political commissars and civilians, and the deportation of Russians to Germany for slave labor. The defense tried to show that there was little to connect their client personally with any of these deeds. The slaughter of Jews, contended his British and German lawyers, was carried out by an SS unit attached to Manstein's command only...
...Tacho" Somoza, spoke up: "Nicaragua knows how to settle its problems with its neighbors through the inter-American peace machinery. It's a shame that the Dominican Republic can't handle its grievances that way." At week's end, Latin diplomats were laying odds that the point would not be lost on lonely Trujillo...
...pine-paneled, air-conditioned office, Eugenio Garza, president of Monterrey's big Cuauthémoc Brewery, reached for the phone and began calling numbers in the city's well-filled business directory. What he had to say was brief and to the point: "Tecnológico needs more money." In the next mail came the first trickle of what later amounted to a flood of checks made out to Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican model-complete to the famed initials-of the U.S.'s Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...this point, a floorwalker approached Santa and called out, "Wouldn't Santa like to feed his reindeer now?" "Aye," said Santa, and he departed, waving farewells to the puzzled children...