Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down ladders until they came to the house before which the tank was parked. Says Ferenc: "I was very frightened. Here I was with a 13-year-old boy and a bottle of gasoline." Ferenc put a handkerchief in the mouth of the bottle, tipped the bottle up to soak it with gas, set the handkerchief alight and dropped the "benzine flash" on the rear end of the tank. Says he: "An enormous flame shot up, and the whole street looked like day. There was a terrible explosion, and the front part of the roof started to cave...
...refutes the contention that his proposed changes would result in a "soak-the-rich" scheme. The burden of taxes would be spread throughout, since a lowering of personal exemptions would mean that lower income groups would share the costs...
...furs, hired a model to save her the nuisance of fittings. Also on order is a new diamond necklace to add to a collection that includes a magnificent, 150-year-old Venetian collar of diamonds and emeralds, besides more ordinary pieces. At night Callas' favorite rite is to soak leisurely in the bath, steep herself in buckets of cologne, and then (after a careful weigh-in on the bathroom scale) to go to bed "feeling absolutely luscious." Perfumed, glowing and gowned in slinky silk, she lies awake late into the night-studying scores while husband
...soak up some of the free-floating wealth from well-heeled miners, drillers and claim-speculators, a Toronto stock-brokerage firm set up a branch office in Chibougamau, now handles $500,000 worth of business a week. The town's four hotels (a fifth is building) seldom bother to take down their "no vacancy" signs, and their barrooms are perpetually jammed around the clock with unshaven miners and prospectors just in from the bush, and ready to swing a rock-hard fist at the drop of an insult...
...Soak the city of New Orleans, which Earl regards as hostile, by upping taxes on pari-mutuel betting by 30% and slashing the city's share of that revenue. New Orleans has the only flat-racing track in the state...