Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saud, one of 40 sons of the late great Lion of the Desert Ibn Saud, has not yet proven himself as lionhearted as his father, and reportedly lives in fear that his enemies may kill him. A recent visitor to his heavily guarded palace heard him say: "I can trust nobody. I cannot trust those closest...
...Committee and, by virtue of his long membership in its organizational and political bureaus, possibly its most influential member. Men who have worked close to Kaganovich adjudge him its "thinking" member. Identified in the past with the rise to power of both Khrushchev and Malenkov, and held in some trust by both factions, old Bolshevik Kaganovich is regarded as the chief advocate of the current "collective leadership," under which all the wary Kremlin gang can hang on to their lives and jobs if no one of them gets too strong...
...their home in Corbeil, Ont., Student Nurses Cecile and Yvonne, Piano Student Annette and Homebody Marie Dionne, survivors of the famed quintuplets (Emilie died during an epileptic seizure last August), celebrated their 21st birthday at a quiet family party. Without ceremony, they signed papers to carve up their trust fund of nearly $1 million. The shares: some $197,000 apiece, plus amounts of about $14,000 (from Emilie's portion) to each of them and to the other ten members of the family...
Those Harvard graduates who have tasted both systems like Yale's better. They have explained their preference in high and pompous terms: that it "indicates a greater amount of trust in students by the administration", that "honesty is bred through temptation"; and other canards. But what they really mean to say was summed up by one student, who, stumbling our of an examination room and collapsing into a chair, remarks...
...have done my work. It will endure, I trust, beyond Jove's anger, fire and sword, Beyond Time's hunger...