Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stranger Than Fiction. In Memphis, Howard Miller, hoping to brush off an old girl friend, told her that he was wanted in seven states by the police, was picked up when cops got wind of his tale, then jailed on a genuine forgery charge when he paid his bail with a phony $100 check...
...hidden. As they were leaving the house, the captors decided to untape the men lest they seem conspicuous. At that, Hicks and Hamlett dashed in opposite directions yelling for the police. The two sleuths fled in alarm in Hamlett's car, quickly ditched it after a narrow brush with a police...
Supplying a guide and safe-conduct passes, Moranino sent Strasserra and four other non-Communist partisan leaders off into the mountains for Switzerland. At the trial, the ex-partisan guide admitted that on Moranino's orders, he led the five men along an Alpine road to a brush-covered hillock, where six Moranino men waited. Spotting them, Strasserra cried: "We're friends. We are going to Switzerland." He was still waving his safe-conduct pass and talking when bullets cut him short. Destroying the evidence, the Reds buried their victims hastily beside the road, took their money...
Sunny Side Up. In Hackensack, N.J., Mrs. Harriett Paula Bisagni got a divorce after testifying that her husband forced her to eat her breakfast on the kitchen floor which he made her scrub with a fingernail brush...
That Sunday morning, during a smoke break, he had found some of the recruits stretched out on the grass, even sleeping, in totally un-bootlike posture. Although it was Sunday, he had ordered a "field day" -a complete cleanup of the barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown...