Word: arounde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told the truth, that their statements to police did not jibe with demonstrable facts and sworn testimony, and that in their similarity they clearly proved a conspiracy to thwart the law in a reasonable inquiry. In the early afternoon of Nov. 14, 1957, he contended, the racketeers spotted police around Barbara's place and promptly put together their common alibi; each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from as far away as Los Angeles or Dallas or Cleveland) and just happened to drop in on ailing Pal Joe Barbara...
...boxy brick house in a drab West Side Chicago neighborhood. Ethel Alesia was late cleaning up the dinner dishes. As she moved around her kitchen one night last week, she half-listened for steps on the front porch-her brother had promised faithfully to be home by 10:30, a good half-hour before the 11 p.m. curfew of his prison parole. For an instant she thought she heard the steps. Then, unmistakably, she heard another sound she had also been half-listening for: the harsh roar of shotgun fire. She rushed to the front porch, found two men twitching...
France Alone. Fifteen months ago, France's De Gaulle opened his demands that NATO have responsibility for coordinating Western policy all around the world. Instead of confining itself to averting Soviet aggression in Europe, he argued, NATO should bind its members to support one another's interests everywhere-and specifically to support France in revolt-torn Algeria. To frame common NATO policy, De Gaulle suggested the formation of a three-power superdirectorate composed of the U.S., Britain and France...
Most of the 1,248 employees around Radio Free Europe's Munich headquarters liked to grumble about the food in the small, spartan cellar cafeteria. Nonetheless, they were irked when without explanation the cafeteria was closed down last month. The union representing RFE's polyglot American, East European exile and German staff went to management to find...
During intermission, the bearded Canadian almost drowned the show when he served so many drinks to cast and audience that the entire second act played as if the hall were built around an imperial quart. Afterward, Perky offered a farewell round of cheer, announced that he had seen the production for the last time and was content. But when the house lights went dark the following night, there -glistening in the ninth row center-was a familiar white goatee...