Word: goon
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...might all be an optical illusion. Some television screens tend to make tall men seem like even taller men. Ray Felix, basketball star for Baltimore, commented sadly, "I'm seven feet, but I say I'm six-eleven because I don't want people to think I'm a goon...
...outdoor hobby. But his outdoor interests have become less, not more sedentary over the years, in remarkable contrast to old clubhouse dictum ("when thou become forty, thou shalt play nothing but golf"). A couple of years ago, he took up ski racing, careful to protect himself with short or "goon" skis. "I used to ski on the long ones, but I was breaking my ankles. Haven't been injured since I took up the goons." Basketball is his winter indoor sport, usually pursued on a team with prominent members of the Class of '27 whom Kennedy refers...
...Angeles is my home. I hope to return there when this mess is over, and when I again plunk down my buck for a loge in Grauman's Chinese Theater, I want to know I am seeing a movie the manager, not the Legion's goon squad, las selected...
...relief fund that topped $45,000. From Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist cabinet came an offer of temporary shelter for the homeless in the big, unused army barracks at Lenz, three miles west of Albettynsville. At first, "Chief" Eric Kumalo, 48, the black-bearded Negro racketeer whose goon squads charge Albertynsville's shanty dwellers 5 shillings a month "protection" money, threatened to beat up any Negro family moving to Lenz. But not for long: protected by Mayor Miller's cops, 1,000 homeless Negroes left their camp fires in the open veld and moved to Lenz...
...further questions, but the two conferred anyway. They talked for about a minute, then Lee asked, "You are from a newspaper?" "Yes," I replied, not saying what newspaper. Mr. Goon leaned over, pointing to my notes. "You just say that we want to use troops in Korea, and that October Tenth is Independence Day. Never mind Chiang and corruption...