Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctors are ducking subpoena servers sent out by Rhoden. Among other things, the lawyer is trying to establish whether Hughes actually could have left the Desert Inn and ended up some 150 miles from Las Vegas, where Dummar says he found him. So far, Rhoden has managed to collar only two executive assistants for depositions. Testifying under oath, the two gave contradictory accounts...
Stewart trimmed his beard to a short, neat Vandyke and gave his hair a tapered cut well above the collar line...
...insists that gambling permits many people?especially the elderly?to "lose themselves in the action of the moment." She adds: "Even though the final result is often negative, it's a positive impulse. The peak experience is almost more important than winning. When he grabs the dice, a blue-collar worker is in control of his destiny. For the businessman, gambling can be cathartic because it can produce an altered state of consciousness...
...berth was a major trouble spot for Harvard last year. Oft-injured Tom Bixby managed to get into only seven matches at the position, at one point having his collar bone broken by Yale's defending NCAA champion, Jim Benett. Four other grapplers took a shot at the job with little success...
Wilson's theories ignore the basic corruption of a society in which, as the Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Committee on Corrections reported this summer, "Street crime is less prevalent and far smaller in dollar value than white collar and organized crime." Low income neighborhoods do not contain criminal elements that are any more immoral or amoral than those of the wealthiest suburbs with high degrees of "community." Street hoods are merely society's biggest losers, with neither the polish nor position to be respectable white collar criminals. They are intellectually, psychologically and economically vulnerable and frustrated. A housebreaker does...