Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this process of self-enrichment, compounded of many handshakes and conversations, will come Rockefeller's shrewd assessment of his chances, according to his close friends. Like a riverboat gambler, willing to risk all if the odds are right but unwilling to plunge recklessly, in the months ahead Rocky will weigh the evidence, not merely of the polls, but of the state of the nation and the world, all of which bear so critically on the fortunes of Vice President Nixon. Said he last week...
...have seen the squint in [Macmillan's] soul." Macmillan himself, harking back to an old description of Hugh Gaitskell as "a desiccated calculating machine," gleefully cracked: "I still think he is rather desiccated, but his reputation as a calculator is gone with the wind. His promises are the gambler's last throw." "There have been a number of personal attacks on me," said Gaitskell, "but I don't complain." "I complain," Mrs. Gaitskell piped up. In his best parade-ground manner, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, no candidate but deep in the battle, barked: "Anybody who votes Labor...
...stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found. In 1876, Gainsborough's portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire vanished from the sales rooms of London's famed art dealers Agnew & Co., was returned for reward 25 years later by a onetime Chicago gambler. Even the Toronto Art Gallery has had its share of thefts. A small Rouault (The Surgeon) vanished from its walls in 1955 and is still missing. The same Rubens that is now at large was also stolen five years ago. That time, the thief triggered an alarm upon leaving, took fright...
...Gambler. If this was the kind of solution De Gaulle had in mind, he would be taking a mighty gamble. In the army there would be the risk of attempted revolt by officers adamantly opposed to any solution that did not keep Algeria an integral part of France. In De Gaulle's own Cabinet there would be outraged protests, perhaps even some resignations. And there was considerable doubt that Algeria's rebel leaders would accept De Gaulle's plan, however liberal it might prove; De Gaulle could only hope that his proposals would appeal to so many...
...explanation than in his promotion. Testifying before District Attorney Frank Hogan's grand jury ("I have nothing to hide''), he finally admitted that the real power behind the Patterson-Johansson fight was Harlem's Anthony ("Tony Fat") Salerno, 48, according to Hogan "a known gambler, bookmaker and policy operator," and a friend of Frankie Carbo, leading light in boxing's dim underworld. Rosensohn said that Velella was only a front man for Tony Fat (who had found it convenient to disappear), later went on the air in New York City to state blithely that...