Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, a cabbie returned a $300 camera left by a photographer in a taxi, and cops actually retrieved the trousers stolen from one delegate's room, returning a wallet. North Dakota Delegate Bonnie Miller, 37, who had said on arrival, "I feel like I'm going to a foreign country," reported at week's end: "The city is full of families and people having fun. I'd just love to stay for a whole month." Texas Delegate Glen Maxey, 24, and a friend, about to be turned away from the posh, 65th-floor Rainbow Room...
...people should follow the Classics," coach John Harvey said. "Who knows? They could have your wallet...
...frightened away when their victim shows his gun, and how many potential crimes are never attempted because the criminal suspects his victim has a gun." That's true, and until those statistics appear I will suggest that the picture of a mugger, gun in hand, saying, "Gimme yer wallet" and being scared off when the citizen pulls forth a cleverly concealed .45 is a rerun from "Wild, Wild West." The idea is also inconsistent; could Gerald Ford have pulled a gun on "Squeaky" Fromme after he saw the barrel of her handgun pointed at him? I doubt Ford is that...
Coming home, late at night, they stumble on a dead man in whose wallet is a bewysboek with a permit to work in Port Elizabeth. This is Sizwe's chance--in drunken self-righteousness and rebellion, he at first refuses to steal the bewysboek and take on the dead man's identity, because for a black man in South Africa, his name is all that he has, the last proof of his manhood. But he finally relents, and Sizwe Banzi is dead...
Despite the lower 1975 harvest, the Soviet consumer is unlikely to feel the difference, either in his stomach or his wallet. Rather than cut back on livestock and poultry output, Soviet leaders have elected to sell gold worth $636 million to get the cash to buy grain abroad. The ironic result is that although American consumers may be forced to pay more for food as a consequence of Soviet grain purchases, Soviet citizens will enjoy bread at artificially low fixed prices. They range in Moscow from 6? for a 1-lb. loaf of tasty black bread...