Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James ("Toothpick Charlie") Kilpatrick, 84, once one of the nation's most finished second-story men, was arrested (for the 32nd time) in Los Angeles. His crime: milking pay telephones. He had been extracting $10 a day from 100 telephones by plugging their coin-return slots with paper, letting nickels, dimes and quarters clog up inside until he came to collect them...
...bushel for wheat. In a special press conference last week, President Peron himself threw down any such hope. Argentina had to have such a price, he explained, because half its wheat went as a gift to countries (e.g., France, Italy and Spain) that cannot pay. Argentina's net return was thus more like half the $5 price...
...weekday morning around 11, a stooped figure with thick glasses, a glistening bald pate and a slight scowl would step off a Broadway bus and trudge to the plain edifice that houses the New York Times. Colleagues on the Times took no offense when kindly Simeon Strunsky failed to return their elevator nods; they all knew that he was nearsighted...
Last August, faithful "Topics" readers sensed that the column had changed hands. Strunsky, at 68, was ill. In the months since then, five Times editorial writers have taken turns at "Topics," marking time for Strunsky's return. But last week, in Princeton, N.J., one of the last of the essayists died...
...squash team will be seeking to return to winning ways after last week's defeat by Army. Previously the squad had trounced Dartmouth, McGill, Toronto, Williams, and Wesleyan...