Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Gilbert Godard was busy spending his insurance money on 1) a new house, 2) a new car, 3) a new lawsuit-against the newspaper Parisien Libéré, which called him "a common crook." As an added symptom of recovery, he stood for a while outside the butcher's shop making rude faces through the window at Maigret, at whom, strangely enough, he was very sore...
...Russian Communist Party. Communists like to make it seem like a pyramid in which power rises from the grass roots up through local and regional committees to the top. The West, on the other hand, usually sees the party as a "monolith," in which Stalin has only to crook his little finger to produce a purge in Krasnoyarsk. The Russian version is nonsense, but the Western idea is not quite right either. The party is in fact a highly complex mechanism which must be kept well oiled if Stalin's finger is to have the desired effect in Krasnoyarsk...
Even the cops disappeared from Rome's deserted boulevards. Explained one of the sweating few who remained at his post: "There's nothing for [policemen] to do. No respectable crook would be caught dead in town on Ferragosto...
...canniest lead-off batter in baseball's history was busy at his favorite pastime: getting a free trip to first base. For 17 years in baseball, Stanky's hook-or-crook motto has been: "I don't care how I get on base." When an umpire once warned him against crouching too low at the plate in an effort to minimize his "strike zone," Stanky snarled: "Are you trying to tell me my business...
...CROOK East Pembroke, Mass...