Word: affixing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Americans are beginning to recognize his face: a pudgy, petulant face which has begun to appear in official Soviet photographs next to Stalin's aging, feline mask. Malenkov was once even empowered to affix the dread signature of Stalin to certain documents, with a special rubber stamp. And more is rumored: that this short (5 ft. 7 in), fat (250 Ibs.), 50-year-old man will inherit Stalin's power. This week, as the19th Congress of the Russian Communist Party convenes in Moscow, great new honors will come to the wielder of Stalin's rubber stamp...
There were few on the floor and undoubtedly few among televiewers who did not stare with interest at pert, grey-haired, 52-year-old Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, the Treasurer of the U.S. The reason: it is one of Mrs. Clark's duties and privileges to affix her signature to the lower left-hand corner of all paper money. She hoped, she said, that everyone in the hall had "many dollar bills with my signature...
...officer then read an article of war which stated that refusal to obey the command of a superior would bring "death or such other penalty as a court-martial may direct. Billings was told by the officer in charge, "Private Billings, I hereby give you a direct order to affix your fingerprints to this record of your induction." He refused, was taken off to the guardhouse, and held for courtmartial...
...Lowest Dungeon. When the prayer was done, Tom gathered two witnesses, took them over to notify the bailiff, then bicycled along to file due notice of clameur with the greffe (clerk of court) and affix two five-shilling stamps. "Nothing more will be done," he told his family confidently that night at dinner, "until the case is decided in court...