Word: crookedly
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...come up here and listened to some dudes talk. They say: `This ain't no play thing--you getting older and sooner or later you gonna pay.' Before, I was just trying to impress people that I was some kind of big crook. I'd say, hey, I can't do anything without my boys. I gotta hustle. Now, I know that ain't nothing. I was just making my life shorter and shorter."--Norm, a 16-year-old participant in the Reach-Out Juvenile Counseling Program at Walpole...
...there are few moviegoers who have not encountered The Lacemaker's kind of misty tragedy at one tune or another, but the film's total impact easily exceeds the sum of its familiar parts. Armed with compassion, tough intelligence and a first-rate cast, Director Claude Goretta (The Wonderful Crook) has performed the rare alchemic stunt of converting a genre picture into art: though The Lacemaker has all the trappings of conventional romantic movies, its deepest?and most upsetting?concerns are purely...
...then general secretary of the Party, introduced a gradualist agricultural reform program designed to undo the damage. In a 1962 speech that was to haunt him later, Teng declared that ideology came second to results: "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production, any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice...
...seemed that Graham had found his Waterloo on the 17th, a short but heavily trapped par-four, when his drive hooked into a chute of trees at the crook of the dogleg on the left side of the fairway. He seemed destined for a certain bogey but instead hit a low, zinging iron that seemed to change direction in mid-flight. The ball skirted the bunker on the left side of the green and kicked to within six feet of the pin. Graham needed to hole out to drawn even with Green but his tentative putt was never on line...
...magazine articles, later concluded in a book, He Slew the Dreamer, that Ray had misled him. Huie decided that Ray had acted alone in killing King. But what had motivated Ray? Huie, who dug into much of Ray's life, contended he was just a small-time career crook determined to impress the big shots in his chosen profession by scoring one major...