Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heist got him a Globe column called "Brink's Notebook," a handful of magazine articles, a book (Anatomy of a Crime) and a movie sale (Six Bridges to Cross). Dinneen's estimated haul, before taxes: $150,000. Last week Dinneen was looking for more pay dirt. He was working to prove his theory that there was an inside man on the Brink...
...Chinese border since the Reds began rising to power. They ask only freedom and often get little more ($1 a day is considered a good wage in Hong Kong). Recently Wen Ko, a cultured former government official from Hunan, was crushed to death by a truck-while shoveling dirt as an earth coolie. To keep the flow of immigration under control, Hong Kong put into effect last March a quota that, in effect, admits one Chinese for every one who returns to China. The colonial service does its best to take care of them all, but in almost every fortnightly...
...with a retired colonel, so he throttles the officer and is soon suspected of murder by the chief of police. Meanwhile, Carl Bradshaw, middle-aging reporter for the Baltimore Evening Star, suspects his editor of wanting to fire him, and hurries around the island digging up bucketfuls of newsworthy dirt. This upsets the governor, who suspects that he is not popular in Whitehall but does not suspect that his handsome aide-de-camp is going to bed with the colored ex-mistress of the island's leading subversive...
...still looked awkward, his huge hands dug grounders out of the dirt with flawless ease. Those long arms could whip a ball across the infield too fast for the fastest runner. His lifetime fielding average was .946. At the plate Honus was a serious, spread-legged terror. For 17 consecutive seasons he hit better than .300 for a lifetime average of .329. In each of eight separate seasons he stole more than 40 bases. Before he quit as an active player in 1917, he had set a National League record of 3,430 hits, played in a record...
Bidding the photographers a relieved goodbye, they followed David and Tony up a 200-yd. dirt road to the big white house, where the U.S. and presidential flags snapped in the chilly breeze...