Word: crookedly
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...this affable, unambitious movie, Nightclub Comedian Jackie Mason appears as a grubby police informer named Roger Pittman, who heads for Miami and a big time with $7,500 from the police contingency fund. Brogan (Dan Frazer), the cop who lent Roger the money as a means to trap a crook, lights out after him. With a couple of days' head start, though, Roger is already spending like crazy. He installs himself in an expensive hotel room, acquires an eye-numbing resort wardrobe and falls in love with a lonely number from Long Island (Marcia Jean Kurtz...
Vietnam changed all that. It was a group of Harvard men, after all, that dragged us by hook and by crook into the war. And it was another group of Harvard men, serving another administration, that helped keep us in the war when most everyone else wanted out. If Harvard's image suffered because of Vietnam, that is well and just. Harvard's involvement in the war was nothing to be proud...
...Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974). Martin Sheen, who ably played Private Eddle Slovik on TV a couple of months ago, returns in this made-for-TV drama about the famous crook of the 1930s. Pretty Boy's real mother appears in a brief introduction. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...
...Cass City and Sandusky, Nixon drew crowds far larger than the towns' populations (all under 3,000). For the most part, the reception was friendly, though not enthusiastic. There were some hostile placards (among them: IMPEACH THE CROOK and CAPONE GOT 10 YEARS) but many more pro-Nixon demonstrators, including a group that chanted, "God loves the President." Then it was back to Washington, a change of suitcases, and off to his Key Biscayne home for the Easter weekend...
...that dragging out Watergate drags down America. The American people want wrongdoing uncovered and the wrongdoers punished, no matter how high the office they hold. By claiming Executive privilege, the President is obstructing justice, whether legally or illegally." Smith said that when Nixon claims that he is "not a crook," he ought "to define what a crook is. He has not aided in uncovering Watergate...