Word: willard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chase Manhattan Chairman Willard Butcher then called together the heads of seven of the brokerage firms from which it had obtained the securities. Butcher told the moneymen that his bank would not be making the interest payments that were supposed to be due to them that day because Drysdale Government Securities had not paid Chase. The banker said that Chase could not be considered legally responsible for the money owed by Drysdale, but was willing to go ahead anyway and and put put $90 million into a $250 million pool until the situation was cleared up. Included among the astonished...
...Willard D. McNown, a semiretired chiropractor, moved away from the Ridgemark Country Club last year. About 2 in. He did the same the year before. First the living room and an upstairs bedroom moved, then the library and kitchen. The garage, or at least one side of it, followed a little later. Walls cracked, ceilings split and doors jammed. Before long, scientists and sightseers were arriving by the busload...
...troubling upswing: mine mishaps killed 106 men in 1978, 133 in 1980 and 155 last year. The Mink Branch disaster was one of seven major Kentucky mining accidents in seven weeks; since the first of the year, 31 U.S. coal miners have been killed on the job. Says Willard Stanley, Kentucky's Commissioner of Mines and Minerals: "Something is going wrong...
...them, all in their 20s, all chosen on the basis of their exceptional promise, not their past work. Today, members of that first set of fellows have gone on to become the Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Garrett Birkhoff; the Pierce Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Willard V.O. Quine; and the Pierce Professor Emeritus of Psychology, B.F. Skinner...
When the ride was over, I did it again. And again. And again. Three times in an hour. I stayed away from "Willard's Whizzer," but I rode the "Tidal Wave" and "The Demon" twice more each. In my euphoria, I decided I could do just about anything. So I ended the day with a spin on the merry-go-round. It made me very sick to my stomach...