Word: crookedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women feel uneasy. "It was a weak case," reports Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The only thing they could have really pinned on him was conduct unbecoming of an officer, and even that was going to be hard to prove. The guy might have acted stupidly, but he is no crook." But Greene, who is up for a promotion to the rank of rear admiral, may well become the third Navy commander in recent months to have sex-related charges derail his career. "He'll never get the promotion now," says Thompson. "It is very political to get to the next...
...flying glass. "When you see what it does, you can't believe it," said Nurse Moser. "It's as though you filled a shotgun shell with slivers of glass and shot it at someone." One man was pierced in 100 places; there were slashed throats, punctured lungs. Dr. Richard Crook treated patients with "blast trauma." "We saw ruptured eyeballs and rib fractures," he said. "One man was driving by the building when the bomb went off and had his window open. It ruptured his eardrums...
Once past the truth-in-advertising issues, though, you have to admit that there's something sturdy, maybe even indestructible, about Kiss of Death. It's the story of a not-too-bright crook and family man named Jimmy Kilmartin (Caruso) caught in a well-carpentered claustrophobic invention. Busted for his reluctant role in a big-time car theft, he gets the book thrown at him when he refuses to inform on his confederates. Then his wife dies, and his fatherly obligations to his little girl start calling. So does the D.A. (Stanley Tucci), who makes a proposal: help...
...people surrounding the swimming pool with suitcases. Who were they? They were families and extended families of the embassy Marine guards, employees, the Vietnamese contract guards. Everybody who worked in that embassy had Vietnamese people their consciences told them they couldn't abandon, and by hook or by crook they all ended up there...
...will, by hook or by crook, by frequent flyer miles or some other way, maintain our Cambridge connection," Breyer said, addressing a crowd of more than 200 at a breakfast sponsored by the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce...