Word: wads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debt to him. At one of them, he was told over much vodka that he was 20,000 rubles (about $2,000) to the good. He blithely took the money, and then the fun began. Already aware that he could not just fly out of the U.S.S.R. with a wad of Soviet currency, Author Caldwell set out valiantly to spend his capitalist-size bankroll there. But he could find almost nothing exportable to buy. In the end, Caldwell returned some 19,500 rubles to the publisher for safekeeping, ignored blandishments to hang around and live like a millionaire (a Black...
...Running. In London, Accountant Francis George Swain, 46, got a two-year prison stretch for embezzling about $8,400 in animal-welfare funds from the Blue Cross-Our Dumb Friends League, got no leniency for having shot the wad betting on such dumb friends as greyhounds and race horses...
...clerk in one of Britain's largest investment trusts last week shook open a soiled manila envelope, and out fell a wad of crumpled ?5 notes, accompanied by a crudely scrawled order to buy stocks. "The man probably had the money in his mattress for 25 years,'' said a fund executive, "but we're getting used to this sort of thing." This "sort of thing" was such a rush to buy shares in British corporations that the Financial Times's share index soared to 259.7, up from 188.1 last fall. Many a broker grumbled that...
...buses a day clank up the mountain road carrying the marks (Harrah refunds $6 of the $7.45 fare). Almost singlehanded, greying Bill Harrah has put the grey-flannel org man on top of a world that once belonged to the flashy lone wolf with fast fingers and a fat wad...
Anybody who has ever collected star fish well knows how an interesting object can in a few days turn into a wad of putrid decay; this latest addition to the literature of the down-and-out is a sign that we have a literary star fish on our hands that must be buried, and quickly...