Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...B.M.W. Isetta with its only door across the front), turned the car over to an attendant, came back several hours later to find the man-who had no idea how to put it in reverse-still sitting in the car, its front end snug against the parking-lot wall...
...garage to borrow a friend's car just in time to witness a painfully accurate re-creation of the St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. With Curtis and Lemmon cowering in a corner, Mobster George Raft and his henchmen line seven men against the wall and machine-gun them dead...
...surprise of Wall Street, the Federal Reserve Board last week tightened up on credit again-and immediately stirred up a controversy. In the third such move since last summer, the Fed permitted four district banks (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas) to raise their discount rates to member banks from 2½% to 3%, thus allowing others to follow...
Like Pioneer IV, Wall Street's bull sped into uncharted territory last week. As trading on the New York Stock Exchange boiled up between 3,900,000 and 4,800,000 shares daily, Dow-Jones industrials hit a peak of 611.87, or 175 points above the 436.89 low of a year ago. Not even tough news could jolt it. The index gave up only 2.35 points on the Federal Reserve Board's discount-rate hike (see above), closed...
...lived in a genuine medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...