Word: crookedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshman Bob Kozol will wrestle at 130, with freshman John Watkins and sophomore Bob Crook at 137. Freshman John Vernaglia will represent the Crimson at 147, along with sophomore Joe Noble...
Rounding out the lineup for the Crimson varsity will be Dave Skeels at 123, Mike Abramovitz, another sophomore who got a pin, at 130, Bob Crook, at 137, replacing Paul Striker, who had to leave for home early, Jack Eastling at 157, and Ted Raymond at heavyweight...
...convinced by the discovery of a swank little restaurant in Tashkent: "The system under which the succesful live--left or right, capitalist or communist--did not seem to make much difference to that group of people, in every city around the globe, who managed by hook or crook to live well...
Though it was often by crook, Hughes usually managed to live well, or fully. Unlike those who distorted themselves and what they saw to correspond with prefixed ideas, Hughes was willing to take things pretty much as he found them and, if possible, to get fun out of them. In Russia for instance a free dental filling "seemed to me a minor miracle." "Moscow dental customs, the unveiling of the harem women in Turkestan, and the disappearance of the color line throughout Soviet Asia, are the three achievements I remember best of the whole USSR...
...MacHeath, legendary killer and gang leader, once popularly known as "The Knife." At novel's start, Mac still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it. Mac is a progressive crook who has come to see not the error of his ways but his means: "What is a picklock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? What is the murder of a man compared to the employment...