Word: drives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competition. In Oklahoma City, Wayne Edwin Leverich, after being arrested for burglary, bemoaned to police the hard lot of the thief: only the night before he had tried breaking into a drive-in, but found another burglar already...
...himself "the life of a vegetable": up at 6, breakfast, drive to the courthouse with one of his bodyguards (he was closely guarded throughout the trial), work over law books until time for court, lunch in his chambers on spinach and one lamb chop (never any variation), nap for half an hour, back to court, back to his chambers for an hour's more work, thence to the Crystal Health Club for a workout, shower and massage, home at 7:15 for two Martinis apiece for wife Ethel and himself, dinner...
What close-cropped, drawling Sam Husbands, 58, did not mention, but what everybody understood, was that the stock sale would take much of the steam out of FRB's drive to prove Transamerica a monopoly. Though Transamerica officials insisted that the stock sale was only "coincidental" to FRB's prosecution, it looked like a shrewd coincidence engineered by Sam Husbands...
Soon things begin to go oadly for Johnny. Chiseling financiers drive Kessler out of the fabulously successful company, then begin to edge Johnny out. The man-eating Dulcie beds herself with every available partner in Hollywood, though somehow Johnny does not learn what is going on until he sees the evidence with his own eyes. But in the end, as the reader may confidently anticipate, Johnny is redeemed by Kessler's kindness, the incredible wealth of a generous Italian banker for whom Johnny worked in his youth, and Doris Kessler's chin-up plea that he remember...
...defense, particularly, showed great improvement. The line played a noble game, so cramping the Exeter running game that the Red and Grey's only touchdown came on a series of short passes. Even these just squeezed out enough ground--there were two measurements for first downs in the touchdown drive...