Word: bummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full. Its greatest danger, however, is that it is likely to lead the unwary reader into taking a trip he cannot afford-and leave him strapped and stranded when his money doesn't stretch as far as Frommer said it would. Says one disillusioned follower: "Europe on Five Bum Steers...
...often happens in great constitutional dramas, the starring player was a nobody: Danny Escobedo, 26, 5 ft. 5 in., 106 Ibs., a Chicago laborer serving 20 years for first-degree murder. Like most convicts, Danny was sure he had taken a bum rap. In his case, the Supreme Court agreed. Danny had confessed to complicity in his brother-in-law's murder, but only after Chicago police had refused to let him see his lawyer, who was in the station house trying to see him.* Not only did the court void Danny's confession: it held that every...
...challenger should go off at 80-to-1, but even the gambling establishment has a trace of patriotism. Chuvalo is a bum, and won the title shot only after World Boxing Association champion Ernie Terrell backed out of his bout with All three weeks...
...bum transcends his gutter, recalling ancient nights. A fat little lady on the subway, purse and packages piled in her lap, eyes shut like a kitten, is holy in her thoughts...
...chief sleepwalker is a distinguished barrister (Ray Milland), in the dock on a murder rap for killing a judge. Milland had threatened to kill the man responsible for the hit-and-run death of his daughter, and the judge was a bum driver-certainly enough circumstantial evidence to suit anybody. After a lifetime of scrutinizing the criminal mind, Milland is such a right honorable chump that he harbors on his own staff an ex-con who spent 15 years preparing the frame-up to revenge himself on both judge and barrister. Enough clues turn up at the Old Bailey...