Word: crookedness
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Entitled They Call It A Game (Dial; $7.95), Parrish's book indicts the football establishment for its greed, manipulations and possible crooked dealings in building and protecting its monopoly. Writes Parrish:"I thought of something Jim Brown had once said to me after a tough game. There are only...
Two months later found Boston Joey in New York at the Guys and Dolls pool room in Times Square. He began popping greenies, he got involved with a woman, and he persisted in playing in a crooked blackjack game. But he did play good pool. He beat Steve Mizerack two...
What does set Mrs. Hodges apart is that under her maiden name, Glenda Jackson, she has recently become one of the most important actresses in Britain and the U.S. as well. Despite a sallow complexion, slight figure and somewhat crooked teeth, she has drawn accolades for her enigmatic, sexually energetic...
Rolls of barbed wire are coiled against brick factory walls. Sandbagged troop emplacements disfigure apartment blocks and churches. Soldiers in battle gear walk slowly down streets with loaded submachine guns crooked in their arms, muzzles pointed skyward but fingers on the triggers. Smashed shopwindows are boarded up. Scaffolding surrounds bombed...
THE TWO islands are inhabited by sunburned, towheaded Tories, whose ancestors left New England in 1775. They and their former slaves live together on Harbour Island. On Spanish Wells the blacks are deported at 5 p.m. Five family names embrace the whites of these islands. The inbreeding is so ancient...