Word: capered
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...sold for 30 to 40 rubles each to budding Ukrainian sweater girls. The operation netted $169,400, was not discovered for seven months. Last week the three ringleaders were ordered to face a firing squad, and 23 of their employees were sent to prison. Almost as impressive as their caper were the generous measurements of their product: an average size...
...caper had been brilliantly planned and executed. To stop the train, the robbers had covered the green light with a glove, activated the red one with four flashlight batteries. In uncoupling the cars, they had deftly operated both the hydraulic and steam-brake systems without raising an alarm. In choosing Bridego Bridge as the transfer point, they picked one of the most deserted spots along the rail line, and further safeguarded their escape by systematically cutting all telephone lines in the vicinity. Borrowing a bicycle, a trainman pedaled to the nearest police station in Cheddington, and reached it an hour...
...Lindberghs, and of course would be overjoyed if she could help find the baby. Just leave it to me, said Smiling Gaston. All he needed to turn the trick was $104,000 ($100,000 for the kidnapers, $4,000 for expenses). But this would be a highly secret caper, he warned. He gave Mrs. McLean a code name, "11." He would be "27." A U.S. naval officer and a Roman Catholic priest, whom Means brought into the plans, got numbers...
...from the Diners' Club. Danny Kaye has got into the clutches of the Jerry Lewis people and is forced to caper through a series of predictable sight gags, but television's Telly Savalas as a murderous mobster almost hijacks the show with his menacing geniality...
...from the Diners' Club. Danny Kaye has got into the clutches of the Jerry Lewis people, and is forced to caper through a series of predictable sight gags with nary a line from Sylvia Fine to brighten the charade. An encounter with a Diners' Club electronic brain is Danny's best bit, but television's Telly Savalas as a murderous mobster almost hijacks the show with his menacing geniality...