Word: smashups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sudden Smashup. Before the central bankers hammered out final details of the scheme in Basel, the signs of a monetary storm were all too evident. Buffeted by the Czech crisis and persistent clamor for an upward revaluation of the strong West German deutschmark (a move that was drawing money out of London), the pound had sunk to within a whisker of its post-devaluation low of $2.38¼ in foreign exchange centers. Harold Lever, financial secretary to the British Treasury and a key figure in selling the scheme abroad, noted: "If the agreement had not been achieved, there would have...
...result in homicide by imprudence becomes guilty in a certain manner of premeditated homicide." The author even invokes the moral logic of Matthew 5: 28-"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart"-as making traffic violations sinful even if no smashup results. For example, contends Renard, "the motorist who gets ready to pass another without having verified whether he can do so without danger, and who does not do so because he sees a policeman at the last minute, has certainly committed a moral fault...
...society divorcee wants a commitment and cuts Yank down as loveless when she gets none. The funny, lewd college girls only wants $50 a throw but dies in a car smashup. The local postmistress tries to seal, stamp and deliver Yank to herself, but he refuses. He stays loyal to the only thing he believes in-his talent. Then O'Hara delievers the famous left hook, Zena Gollum takes a bottle of sleeping pills and has the last word on Yank as a human being: "Dear Yank: thanks for nothing...
...cent in compensation. Reason: the insurance company involved has gone broke. Los Angeles Motorist Dominga Lopez found herself in a different kind of bind. She carried a $100-deductible policy, and her insurance company tried to get her to pay $200 damages herself by insisting that a three-car smashup was actually two separate accidents. In Memphis, a collision with a city bus cost Businessman T. J. Downs Jr. $114 in repair bills, but the bus company's insurer offered him only half that amount-take it or leave it. He will take it. "It would cost more than...
...impoverished blacksmith, grew up in a tiny village 140 miles southwest of Tokyo, dropped out of school at 13, developed an early interest in engines. He opened his own auto repair shop at 22, raced cars, set national speed records, then quit the track at 31 after a serious smashup. Recuperating from his injuries, Honda conceived plans for his own motor company, soon began manufacturing piston rings for autos, naval vessels and planes...