Word: cold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cold. Said one of Milken's friends: "From now on he is on his own -- and as determined to prove his innocence as ever." Milken's defense against criminal charges could be hampered by the Drexel settlement, in part because the firm has promised to cooperate with the U.S. Attorney's probe of his transactions. But Stanley Arkin, a Manhattan attorney who specializes in white-collar crime, says separating the cases could help Milken. Says Arkin: "Milken will now be able to defend just his actions instead of those of 10,000 others...
When his father died in November 1963, he searched for an appropriate memorial. "I remembered the incident of the lost glove, and it occurred to me that gloves are a powerful symbol because being warm is being well-off and being cold is being poor. At that time there weren't as many homeless people on the streets, and so I immediately thought of the Bowery, and I decided to put a pair of gloves on some poor fellow's hands just as my father had slipped free Danish rolls into customers' bags." Greenberg was then teaching sixth grade...
...sandwich in the bag without his customer's knowing," he says. "He would always tell us, 'Don't deprive yourself of the joy of giving.' " Money was short, and Michael has a searing recollection of losing a glove while helping bring supplies into the store on a bitterly cold morning. "I was never able to find it, and for years I went around without gloves. I never asked my father to replace them because I felt so guilty...
...Durand's narrative, and J. Maxwell Brownjohn's translation, cold feet are "like blocks of ice." A bashed villain goes "out like a light." A neighborhood is "as silent as the grave." An event happens "in a flash." Matters are as clear "as daylight." If the author were competing with John le Carre, these bromides might undo his tale...
...Good War is not the cold war, and an international page turner should never be confused with a geo-political thriller. The one man who can save Thomas is American David Quartermain, who fathered the illegitimate boy and is sitting out the war in Vermont. Quartermain, whose name evokes the dauntless hero of King Solomon's Mines, is not just well off. He is a member of the most powerful banking family in the U.S. For lagniappe, he bears a striking resemblance to Gary Cooper. The boy's only protector is a supermarksman out of Ghostbusters. Miquel is the sort...