Word: contract
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jack is going to contract another groin injury, and George is going to be saying 'like dude, where's the front wall.' It's not even going to be close," Jim says...
Unlike Alice Mellings in The Good Terrorist, however, Harriet comes to understand her mistakes. Children are a "challenge to destiny", a contract not to be entered into hastily. Lessing makes the point that that the profligate mating of David and Harriet's marriage was as wasteful as the excesses of the flower children...
...Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy...
...comes David Scheim's Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy, already in at least its fourth printing, even though its official publication date was early this month. One hopes that, barring the increasingly unlikely discovery of new evidence, Scheim's exhaustively-researched will bring an end to the genre...
...General Robert Kennedy, to crack down harshly on organized crime. In addition, the Mafia was enraged at the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, which left Fidel Castro free to shut down Mob-run businesses in Cuba. Ordinarily, Scheim writes, the Mafia would not dare put out a contract on a president, but Kennedy had "slept with" the Mob, using his Mafia connections to meet Judith Campbell, who engaged in affairs simultaneously with the president and a well-known gangster...