Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civil Rights Congress, headed by rich, earnest George Marshall (no kin to the Secretary of State). It has been the courtroom defender of avowed Communists...
Everybody who is anybody in the rich hierarchy of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers knows that tough Dave Beck has been angling for years to take Dan Tobin's throne whenever vain, old (72) King Dan decides to step down...
...which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants-and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...delegates had set up pilot educational projects in illiterate regions; they had arranged world music libraries, microfilm exchanges of important books, recorded lectures from rich universities for poor universities, a science center in Paris...
...condition of the food, I might say it is uniformly cold in most of the Houses. Rich looking roast beef can be disappointing if served only lukewarm. And who likes his boiled potato cold? The butter won't even melt. Carrots often appear unscraped...