Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flattered Deliphene, played with her 21-month-old baby Rainell, helped install an indoor toilet in her house, and finally became her lover. Martha was beside herself with rage and jealousy-particularly after Ray offered Martha $2,000 and the car to clear...
Golfer Ben Hogan, 36, who broke pelvis, collarbone, ankle and rib in an auto crash five weeks ago, had an abdominal operation to clear up a "critical" blood clot condition. He was reported in "good condition" after the operation, but it would still take him a couple of months to fully recover from the fractures...
Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's old China Hand A. T. ("Arch") Steele: "These [Communists] no longer are the same easily approachable people they were during the salad days at Yenan . . . No foreigner here has succeeded in meeting any [important] Communist . . . What is not clear is how much this [standoffishness] is a calculated policy...
...successor? The loudest screams came from Promoter Mike Jacobs, semi-retired boss of Manhattan's 20th Century Sporting Club: "I never thought he would do this to me . . . I'm getting back in harness in two weeks. We ain't conceding nothing." It was clear to him that Promoter Joe had declared war on Promoter Mike, the man who masterminded all of Louis' championship fights...
...Nick Beal (Ray Milland). At first Beal supplies the prosecutor with evidence against a big-time gambler; then he stands at the lawyer's elbow, goading his political ambitions. By the time Mitchell has been persuaded to play ball with a corrupt, vote-powerful political machine, it is clear that his sly, satanic ally called Beal is really Beelzebub...