Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose out of his granite tomb in Red Square last week and stalked the crenelated walls of the Kremlin with an awesome message for Communists everywhere. Like Hamlet's father, the old dictator gave notice that he was doomed to walk the night and "to fast in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away." The man who raised the ghost was Nikita Khrushchev, no Prince Hamlet, but now Stalin's clearest heir...
Banker from Lincoln. The man who minds Ex-Im's till is Samuel Clark Waugh, 65, a longtime Nebraska banker with a wide-open mind and the appropriately chubby (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) build of a Santa Claus. Going to Washington in 1953 after 40 years with the First Trust Co. of Lincoln, the last seven as president, he took charge of international economic affairs for the State Department, became a vocal and effective champion of freer trade. Traveling thousands of miles in 28 months, Waugh helped write the GATT agreements in Geneva, campaigned for Japan...
Special Detail. In Chicago, Patrolman Walter Binder, in a stake-out at a service station, was stuck up by two gunmen who lifted $225 from the till, trussed up the cop, stole his pistol and wristwatch...
...fear/ I cannot be dunned/ For another year/ It now costs me/ Five thousand dollars/ To make children three/ From books to scholars/ Of this large sum/ Old Harvard fair/ To teach my son/ Now gets her share/ So I ask ye/ At this costly time/ Please patient be/ Till I have a dime...
...president of the Lampoon, McCord was not at a loss for words. He replied: "Dear Mr. Griscom/ You are good/ Your Pax Vobiscum/ Is understood/ Your children three/ Will soon be scholars/ Till then your free/ No duns for dollars/ For even we'll/ Remember that/ It isn't leal/ To pass the hat/ Until your boy/ Has got his growth/ What then: O joy/ We'll get you both...