Word: crookeder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 45 years of Communist rule most Russians are resigned to living in the nonAffluent Society, but a growing number seek to beat the system in various ways, many ingenious and crooked.
After eight holes, grimacing, shaking his head, cursing his "crooked" putting. Palmer trailed Nicklaus by four strokes, and hundreds of his rooters streamed dejectedly toward the air-conditioned clubhouse bar. But at that moment, when his cause seemed most hopeless, Palmer's cold putter turned hot. Plagued all tournament...
And further, the Harvard man has an immense scorn for the desires and pursuits for others. He laughs at grinds, jocks, music wonks, and professors. He thinks business is boring and a waste of time, and he feels that all politicians are crooked and misled. There is an iconoclasm that...
He throws a bar mitzvah for a partner's son and intones throatily. "To a boy. fare well. To a man, hello!" The boy's father, thanks to Harry, is about to say hello to a prison warden when Harry's Mama breaks misty-eyed into a...
"Jimmy can't expect me to stand up and praise him for the crooked life he's led," wrote the father of Murderer-Rapist James Hanratty (TIME, March 2) in London's Daily Express (circ. 4,328,524). Elsewhere in the paper, the girl Hanratty raped relived...