Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legs. Three of India's 15 states have close to total prohibition ; nine others ban liquor in some areas. In all of them, bootleggers have come up with ploys undreamed of by Dutch Schultz or Legs Diamond. When eleven pregnant women filed onto one Bombay streetcar, an Indian cop with limited tolerance for coincidence arrested them all, found they were pregnant with football bladders filled with booze. Some bootleggers use lepers as delivery boys, confident that the police will shy away from searching them. Others cache their product in containers tied to the underside of manhole covers. Law enforcement...
...also saw in Marilyn Monroe "tremendous native feeling. She has more guts than a slaughterhouse. Being with her, people want not to die. She's all woman' the most womanly woman in the world." Did her miscellaneous loves, her hopeless marriages to the California cop and Joe DiMaggio, trouble him? "I've known social workers who have had a more checkered history than she has," said Miller gallantly. For her part, Monroe murmured dreamily, "We're so congenial. This is the first time I think I've been really in love...
...usable past," he experimented first with jazz in the wiry, jaunty Music for the Theater (1925), later wove it into the strident and monumental style of the Ode, which to his mind marks "the end of the first period of my work." A later period was inspired by Cop land's feeling that the American composer was losing touch with his public. In the late 1930s he began to write his often criticized "popular-style" music, typified by his raucously percussioned, slickly orchestrated El Salón México and by his scores for films (Of Mice...
...care one way or the other. Brigitte's father performs admirably in a comic-relief role; his best scenes occur when he goes to the dance hall looking for Vidal and (inevitably) is mistaken for a prospective pupil. And the inspector and his sub-gendarmes express all of a cop's care-worn but crime-piercing wisdom...
...from Brooklyn. "He drives a horse, too," he added. The man from Syracuse had tickets for the show, but he wanted to see Kennedy. "All right," a policeman suggested, "you take this raincoat and hat, and I'll take your ticket and see the show." The same cop, when--in one of many false alarms--it appeared that the candidate was finally coming, anounced, "Any bomb-throwers please leave...