Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ingrediatur tabernas . . . [No students shall enter taverns]" began Oxford's 14th Century rule designed "to further the honest pursuit of studies and to restrain the arrogance of those in whom the energies of their stomachs exceed those of their minds." Since 1355, when carousing Oxonians at the Swyndle-stock Tavern precipitated a three-day riot by hitting their host on the head with a beer tankard, it had been as scrupulously enforced as it had been ingeniously flouted. But by last week, some of the fun had gone out of Oxford's drinking. Prompted by the demands...
...sympathy, and returned to the U.S. at the end of the war. He planned to settle down in his rambling, unpretentious home in Glendale with its stretch of lawn and its' big recreation room containing a billiard table and a easeful of ribbons won by Sawyer horses and stock at state and county fairs...
Aleksandar ("Marko") Rankovic, Minister of the Interior, is of a different (and repulsive) type. Born in the Posavina 41 years ago of Serb peasant stock, he started life as a tailor. He became a Communist when still in his teens. He looks a perfect police chief-burly and iron-jawed, with eyes as cold and muddy as the Danube River in winter. In 1939 he was in Moscow, taking lessons in police administration from Lavrenty Beria. Rankovic is the most intensely hated man in Yugoslavia...
...months ago for mail fraud conspiracy and violation of securities laws, the Federal Government marshaled an impressive amount of evidence. It brought into the Chicago court 73 witnesses and 1,000 documents in an attempt to prove that Tucker and associates had used $28 million raised in sales of stock and dealer franchises "for [their own] personal benefit and profit." The advertising of the Tucker Corp. was called a "pack of lies." None of the 34 cars made, said Govern" ment attorneys, had contained any of the revolutionary mechanical features mentioned...
...Panair executives, who had built up perhaps the finest operational record of any South American airline, the scandal was tough luck. Last week, Pan American, which owns 48% of Panair's stock, rushed a task force of two vice presidents and two controllers from the U.S. to go over the books behind locked doors. As reports spread that the shortage was much greater than first announced, Panair Manager Frank Sampaio abruptly resigned, without explanation...