Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unidentified burglar allegedly stole President Bok's wallet, an airline ticket and his attache case from a room that Bok rented Sunday night at the Embassy Row Hotel in Washington...
...worries about the day ahead. "One little thing can set people off," he explains. "You gotta nip it just before it gets out of hand." Another cop, just as Irish as the first, lists the kinds of "maggots" the observer will see. "There will be lots of wallet lifters, and some of the guys who just grab ladies' necklaces and take off with them; and then there's punks, and they just like to harass people...
...ears before you know it," Coddington exclaims. "Things got caught in midstream," he added. "For a while there we couldn't ship it and we couldn't store it." But Harvard's labs and hospitals didn't slow down their research efforts. The University gritted its teeth, opened its wallet up wide and started to ship the radioactive waste out to Hanford, Washington. Days later, a committee of officials from all sectors of the University sat down to consider the situation. If anything concrete emerged from the session, it was a feeling that the problem would get worse before...
...marks the start of a new year - the end of the slow season, a time of fresh beginnings. But this new year opened with a disquieting week of turmoil. As nervous investors continued to convert cash into inflation-proof tangible assets, the price of gold shot up to a wallet-popping $341 an ounce before settling back at week's end to $329. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been rising since July, plunged 15 points in one day, the largest decline since last December. Other news was also depressing. Wholesale prices rose in August at an annual...
...younger brother Toby, their father's life was a matter of putting on heirs, of inventing a past that never was and promising a future that could never be. Endless rascality ultimately becomes tedious and irksome; all the world loves a confidence man until it discovers its wallet is missing. Yet Wolff's account of this misspent life is absorbing throughout. It is not just the story of "a wreck of a desperado," as he calls the Duke at one point; it is an engrossing, often moving search for the troubled bond between sons and fathers that...