Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sell his Air West holdings, assuring him that he would be "made whole" for any losses. Similarly, according to pretrial testimony in the Maheu libel case, Greenspun was assured by an associate of Maheu that "Mr. Hughes isn't going to let you get caught holding the bag" by selling Air West stock at a low price. Around Dec. 31, 1968, the Government charges, Crockett, Greenspun and Charnay unloaded 46,000 snares of Air West stock, or slightly more than 1% of all the shares outstanding. The stock's price skidded from a high...
...Department of Justice in 1969, Cain admitted that his Mafia and police careers were inextricably linked. Through the influence of a Democratic politician in Chicago's inner city First Ward, he got a job as a detective in 1956. He soon became the Mob's bag man in the police department, paying off detectives to insure freedom of operation. He was finally compelled to quit the force in 1960, when he and another detective were discovered wiretapping the offices of Mayor Richard Daley's Commissioner of Investigations to secure possibly damaging information that might be used against...
Likely Prey. The cameras were put in last September because the Great White Way was in danger of becoming the great dark way. Legitimate theaters and respectable restaurants have been imperiled by an invasion of porno movie houses, peep shows, sleazy eateries and a grab bag of other dubious enterprises. Understandably, this kind of low-life smorgasbord attracts some of the strangest night creatures ever to adorn a modern city. They range from nattily dressed black pimps in high heels to gaudily painted transvestites to the "Christmas-tree man," whose head, coat, shut and pants are festooned with tinsel...
When the Vatican hears that pilgrims are flocking to a remote coastal town in Ireland to hear a Latin Mass and make their confessions, it dispatches young Father James Kinsella (adroitly underplayed by Martin Sheen) to put down the insurrection. Fashionable in Castroesque fatigues and shouldering a musette bag, Kinsella drops by helicopter into the rebel stronghold, an ancient island monastery called Muck Abbey...
...Connally by accident at a small private airport adjacent to Washington's National Airport. Robert Lilly, the secretary of AMPI'S political organization and one of those present, recalled hearing Connally say something like: "Go ahead with the new contributions because it's in the bag...