Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trade School. In Hartford, Conn., denying any attempt to escape, Convict Charles Glover explained that he had tied bedsheets together because he wanted to learn how to braid hair...
Dominique was given to making salades (trouble), to pouring into slot machines money that should have gone to Bill, even to talking of giving up her trade altogether. Among the more code-conscious of Paris' 9,000 prostitutes, the penalty for deserting a protector is severe: it can mean a 500,000-franc fine, underworld-enforced, or even the lifelong scar of the dreaded croix des vaches, a deep cross carved into the doxy's forehead. Bill had even more grandiose ideas of the code of the caïd. When Dominique told him that she could...
When 40 carabinieri arrived to clear the marketplace for the day's trade, tempers flared, and the trouble began. Fighting tear gas with rocks, cabbages and potatoes, the mob forced the troopers to retreat into the city hall, where for good measure the rioters ransacked the local tax office and burned the tax records. Seizing the abandoned carabinieri truck, the peasants drove it through the barred double doors of the city hall's main entrance and set it afire. But inside, besides the harried carabinieri, were 100 women and children, who were trapped in upper floors...
...almost unnoticed, touched down gently at Los Angeles International Airport and taxied to the customs shack in a remote corner of the sprawling field. Out stepped a 56-year-old grandfather. "I've got 30 gallons of gas left," announced Max Conrad, "and I'd like to trade that for a glass of water." For Veteran Pilot Conrad, it had been a long time between sips of water. Carrying only a supply of coffee and tea, he had flown an incredible 7,683 miles nonstop from Casablanca in a 250-h.p., single-engined aircraft, beating by some...
...aspect of Geneva's life escaped John Calvin's strict control; he was consulted on every legal, political or economic question that came before the city's councils (he developed Geneva's cloths and velvet trade and even introduced an advanced system of sanitary regulations). Doctrine for him was never a speculative but a practical matter, and the waves of his theocratic thought rolled on through the centuries to reappear in Scottish Presbyterianism and New England Puritanism...