Word: tip
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That Anne Frank is remembered at all can be attributed to Nazi priorities: first, round up Jews; next, confiscate their valuables. Books and personal scribblings were optional. That is what happened on Aug. 4, 1944 when, on a tip, SS Oberscharfuhrer Karl Josef Silberbauer and his men broke into the annex behind Otto Frank's foodstuffs firm at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. The raiders arrested the Franks and four others who shared their secret quarters. Furniture and salable items were removed...
Voters in this traditionally liberal district are not only choosing a Congressional representative; they are granting membership to a select club that includes both John F. Kennedy '40 and former Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. Of the 10 Democrats in this tight race, George Bachrach most deserves a chance to join that club...
...both have spotty records on such key issues as education and crime. Flynn struggles vainly to recapture the sound bite-style politics that made the eighth's predecessors--James Michael Curley, John F. Kennedy '40, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill and Joseph P. Kennedy II--endearing to the voters...
This team's wild card may be its 12 freshmenand sophomores, who could potentially tip thebalance in the Ivies...
...then at 4[cents] on the dollar we could expect an $80 billion drop in annual consumer spending, or about 1% of the total U.S. economy. While that alone is not enough to stop the economy from growing, economists say, it could combine with the global currency crisis to tip the U.S. into recession later this year or in early...