Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When a teller balked. Hume shot and critically wounded him. Scooping up a meager $45, he ran out into the street just as the assistant teller rang the alarm. He killed a taxi driver who tried to stop him, was finally brought down by a 24-year-old pastry cook after his pistol jammed...
Physicist Edward Teller traversed the north side of Oregon's Mount Hood with his son Paul, 16, and daughter Susan Wendi, 13. Darkness trapped them near a swollen stream, and the "Father of the H-Bomb" thought the water looked too heavy to be forded at night. When rescuers reached them in the cold predawn, Teller assured them: "We were not lost. We simply got a late start." Said one rescuer ambiguously: "Dr. Teller had a good case of the shakes...
Once upon a time, Gypsy Rose Lee was known for her ability to tease more than she stripped. More recently she has made her name and fortune as a teller of tales. Last week in London, she told of vacationing recently in Yugoslavia when, at the wheel of a rented Rolls-Royce, she collided with a motorcycle on a winding road overlooking the Adriatic Sea. To her astonishment, recalled Gypsy, deadpan, the rider and his passenger high-tailed it for the woods, abandoning their machine. Later Gypsy asked a Yugoslav official why the wild ones had acted so wildly...
...Nevertheless, the record industry has set the stateliest periods of English poetry and prose to spinning on thousands of U.S. phonographs at 33-1/3 r.p.m. Sampling the newer releases, the auditory reader can pass his evenings with anything from a spoken history of baseball (Columbia) to Physicist Edward Teller's richly Magyar dissertation for Spoken Arts on the "thee-ory of relateevity" ("it weel sound to you crazy...
Spot Cash. In Duncan, Okla., when she developed a rash on her left hand, Bank Teller Laverne Parks learned from her doctor that she is allergic to money...