Word: crookedness
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Take a coke-snorting smuggler, a crooked Army quartermaster, a deceptively dippy hooker and a smooth-talking expert in alarm systems. Add a bank, ultramodern European and defiantly burglarproof. The hooker is greedy, the alarms expert larcenous and the bank eminently susceptible to a shrewd variation on the Trojan-horse...
Front End and Grille. Oscar, Jackie and Mickey started out in what has almost become an apprentice program for aspiring auto thieves. They began in "piece work," slap-hammering late-model Buicks and Cadillacs, which were sold for $50 each to mob-controlled wholesalers in Brooklyn and Queens. The cars...
"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still...
Edward Kiernan, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, branded Phillips a "greedy thief." Most cops, while not denying much of what Phillips said, felt that he had given them all a bad name at a time when they need public respect more than ever. "If I made as...
Crooked Dog Race. It is a sinister world, but less sinister than ridiculous. At one point, the hero stumbles through Stonehenge in a torrential downpour pursuing a brace of runaway greyhounds that Moggerhanger has just entered in a crooked dog race. Later he finds himself both proposing marriage and consummating...