Word: becking
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...better than common thieves when they betray their employees and steal from their investors." He noted that the WorldCom executives could face as much as 65 years in prison, which legal experts dismissed as prosecutorial hyperbole. Yet as former federal prosecutor and Los Angeles white-collar defense lawyer Mark Beck notes, "The criminal sanction is so severe that it can motivate someone to play ball and become a government witness in exchange for leniency...
...happened, history was with the guitar; Elvis and Buddy Holly, B.B. King and Bo Diddley, The Beatles and the Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck, ad infinitum ad gloriam, closed that case. And Jerry Lee would be the definitive piano rocker in part because he was, in the music's infancy, one of its last. (The saxophone, primal ax of early rock, also went nearly extinct.) He worked under another disadvantage: A pianist, unlike a guitarist, couldn't take his instrument to a gig; at least back then he didn't. Janes ascribes some of Lewis' extreme behavior...
...legendizes Hart's final opening night - November 17, 1943. Left alone in his hospital death bed, Larry staggers to his feet, puts a jacket and trousers over his pajamas (the risible jammies in "Melody Makers" now a shroud for the walking dead) and somehow makes it to the Martin Beck Theatre, unseen by the preoccupied Rodgers. Furiously kneading his throbbing temples (he apparently has a brain tumor), Larry listens distractedly to a few bars of his and Dick's music, then goes outside, collapses and dies on the street...
Last year the Red Sox were forced to make do with a substandard selection of mediocre rookies and arm-weary veterans. Joe Kerrigan and his staff coaxed as much as they could from the likes of Brett Saberhagen, Rod Beck and Tomo Okha—but such a staff could clearly never be expected to win a World Series. The injury to Pedro Martinez was, of course, vital, but even before he went down the staff looked decidedly thin. His injury was merely a convenient peg for a slide that would have doubtless occurred at some point with a patchy...
DOUBLES: 1. Arlak-Beck (B) def. Bergman-Lingman (H) 8-6. 2. Martire-Hyotte (H) def. Wong-Zeff (B) 8-4. 3. Broughton-McGinty (H) def. Meath-Casey (B) 8-0. SINGLES: 1. Lingman (H) def. Beck (B) 6-0, 6-1. 2. Martire (H) def. Marianella (B) 6-1, 6-1. 3. Broughton (H) def. Arlak (B) 6-0, 7-5. 4. Naqushbandi (H) def. Meath (B) 6-3, 6-1. 5. McGinty (H) def. Wong (B) 6-2, 6-1. 6. Timoney (H) def. Casey...