Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five. Most whites work for the big corporations that are responsible for the Congo's boom. The corporations operate hand in glove with the government, through a series of interlocking cartels, of which the biggest (60% of all Congo business) is named, with eloquent simplicity. La Société Générale...
...spurt. Ned Felton, hitting for Ward, drew a base on balls, Dick Hoffman smacked a double to right center, scoring Hastings and sending Felton to third. John Simourian was intentionally passed, to load the bases. Bill Cleary promptly stepped up and smashed a single off the third baseman's glove, driving in the tying and leading runs...
...onetime "treasurer" of Al Capone's vice syndicate, aging (68) ex-Public Enemy Jake ("Greasy Thumb")* Guzik, heard that the American Broadcasting Co.'s local TV station in Chicago was cooking up a series on "notorious underworld leaders." Figuring that the description fitted him like a kid glove, Greasy Thumb filed suit to block ABC from giving his life a public airing. Said his petition: "Guzik is not an athlete or actor, not a candidate for public office, has never achieved fame in literature, the arts or sciences, and he has never given his assent to becoming...
...reached for the door handle, a youth, apparently stationed as a lookout, fled from the front of the car. Dellera spotted a partner lying on the front seat, rifling the glove compartment. Quickly pinning him under the flexible front seat of the coupe, Dellera reached for his 30-30 hunting rifle, which was lying on the back seat...
...youth already had a watch in his hand, taken from the glove compartment, and the girl's cigarette lighter in his pocket when Dellera caught...