Word: cuffe
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...Parks, and the door opened. "All right," rasped Parks, "where's it hidden?" Hamlett protested that he did not know what they were talking about. Reporter Cook, a high-school halfback who packs 210 lbs. into his 6 ft. 1 in. frame, took turns with Parks trying to cuff a confession about the robbery out of Hamlett...
...Jeweled Cuff Links. The Soviet story in the past three years is largely the story of Nikita Khrushchev's effort to wear the mantle of Stalin's leadership...
...motion powerful new anticolonial forces. But the job of fashioning counterplans would be hopeless if the U.S. first failed to take stock of its own basic role and mission in the world. Last week Dwight Eisenhower provided just such a stock-taking in an off the cuff speech before the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Advertising Council in Washington...
...Herbert Hoover also required written questions, and almost abandoned conferences altogether toward the end of his term. Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to master the press conference, and was its alltime king of repartee as well. Harry Truman tried to use the same methods, though his off-the-cuff answers often landed him in trouble. But F.D.R. and Truman rarely let themselves be quoted directly, and both cooled noticeably toward the conference as their years in office lengthened...
Zymotic Bilge. Among the playwrights only Shaw is placed above suspicion of shoddiness, and the long arm of an O'Casey grudge can reach far back to cuff an offender ("Pinero . . . turned the wine of drama into water. A miracle, a miracle!"). Three pieces are devoted to the demerits of Noel Coward, whose works are finally summed up in two words (of George Jean Nathan's): "zymotic bilge." As for the "flea minds" of Ireland who are not properly reverent to their self-exiled bard, "these critics do not injure O'Casey, but they disgrace Ireland...