Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confession would not be used against DeSalvo. What Bottomly was getting was the opportunity to close one of the most sensational murder investigations in Massachusetts history. What Bailey was getting in return was a substantiated record of a grisly series of murders. Having that, he then planned to call psychiatrists to cite the murders as evidence of DeSalvo's insanity. With his strategy so neatly prepared, Bailey almost casually agreed to the twelve men who were chosen for the jury. Said he blandly: "The case is so strong, I don't care about the jury...
Although it does not call for star billing, the part is one of the strongest and most complex on Broadway, and Grey treasures it as if it were a long-awaited inheritance. With his wife Jo, he has worked out a gradually intensifying makeup scheme that transforms his face from mere decadence at the outset to a gaping death's head by the end. In the desperate name of gaiety, he paws the girls, dons tights and wigs to join the chorus line, and dances with an all-but-naked fake gorilla...
...last week, in the cryptic jargon of commodity dealers, began the world's first public trading in mercury futures -contracts calling for delivery in a future month of the slippery metal known to mystified ancients, beloved of medieval alchemists, prized by modern industry for everything from thermometers to detonating caps. By his call of 90, Coyne had offered to pay $490 per flask for ten flasks of mercury* to be delivered the month after next. Marcus grabbed at the bid because the price surprised him. "We thought it would open at $480 to $485," he explained...
...outright loan; the rest will come from the purchase of additional shares, which will push Chrysler's total stock investment in Rootes to $93 million. To damp the fiery protests in Parliament, most of which came from the Labor backbenchers, the complex refinancing arrangements will also call for Britain, through the state-run Industrial Reorganization Corp., to hold about 13% of Rootes voting stock...
...himself up as the spycho-analyst of the cold war. In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which was made into the most intelligent suspense movie of 1965, he candled the head of an aging agent and found all the sickness of the century inside. In Call for the Dead, an early le Carre thriller that has now been made into an entertaining but less original film, he calls in another sad old spy to define the meaning of treason in our time...