Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them showed Kubitschek, his arms spread, apparently pleading with Dulles, who seemed to be looking into his wallet (see cut). It was enough to send Rio's nationalist press into tail spins. The normally staid Jornal do Brasil spread it seven columns across the front page, ran a caption implying that Kubitschek was pleading desperately with a sardonically grinning Dulles. Jeered Congressman Carlos Lacerda in his Tribuna da Imprensa: "Kubitschek, the President, rises respectfully to talk to Secretary Dulles in a language which cannot be understood. For it is the language of a subaltern speaking to a superior...
Proper Credentials. In Milan, Italy, a pickpocket on a crowded bus lifted Adamo Degli Occhi's wallet, gave it back with embarrassed apologies when he recognized Occhi as the attorney who helped him beat a pickpocket rap two months earlier...
...student, Walter G. Miller '60, had stopped to talk to a stranger when a man approached him from behind, pushed him onto a bench, and asked for his wallet. The robber then started to strangle him until he surrendered...
Once upon a time there lived in Inglewood, Calif, an earnest young man wallet-deep in difficulties. The young man had lost his $140-a-week welder's job, his wife had been ill and he owed hospital bills. Mortgage payments were due on the $9,300 house he had bought three months earlier, and the bank was prepared to foreclose. Then up popped the young man's fairy godmother in the bureaucratic guise of the California Division of Highways. Negotiators informed him that the San Diego Freeway was headed through his living room. Twenty days before...
...phone call from B-entry alerted the Police who finally caught Joseph Mc-Hugh at 3 a.m. in Lowell E-43. When apprehended, McHugh was in the midst of ransacking a wallet in a student's desk...