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Word: grilles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story is circumstantial, but his theme is universal: turn the rascals out! A scandal breaks. The subsidiaries of a construction trust are accused of rigging bids on government contracts. Secret kickbacks are suspected; elected officials may be involved. The press takes up the hue and cry, and the police grill two officials of the companies interested. They refuse to talk. Released, one of them commits suicide, and the other disappears and is presumed dead. But he is dangerously alive: a bomb in the hands of an almost insanely angry young man (Toshiro Mifune) who has sworn to avenge the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gentlemen of Japan | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...haven't made up my mind yet," he said. He drove off again, stopped at one point to move Gail into the trunk of the car. Later, after sundown, he put her back into the rear seat, tied her hands to a door handle, went into a grill in nearby Norwalk, bought a chicken sandwich and gave it to Gail. Then he raped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: You Wouldn't Understand | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Ernst was the maitre d' at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt Grill, and he was talking to 27-year-old Guy Lombardo the night the Royal Canadians opened there. A Chicago critic had called Lombardo's airs "the sweetest music this side of heaven," but still it made Ernst nervous. Lombardo was leaving out the boop-poop-a and just giving the dew. But Lombardo ignored him and kept fogging it into the room-for 33 years-to become one of the most popular and durable performers in U.S. show business. He has sold more than 100 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bands: The Royal Floridians | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...They were conditioned to one type of music-the businessman's bounce," he said. "There we were playing something radically different, slow stuff without a beat, snuggle-on-your-shoulder kind of music. The college kids really saved our necks. They liked our style and the Grill became the favorite place for the whole college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bands: The Royal Floridians | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...Cover) Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman was on the grill. What were his associations with Billie Sol Estes? Freeman shrugged, hopelessly and helplessly. He had, he told newsmen, met Estes once, briefly, when Estes was paying one of many visits to Agriculture Department headquarters in Washington. Said Freeman: "I might recognize him in pictures." Then he mustered up a bit of bitter humor: "I'm sure I'll never forget the name." The newsmen laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Decline & Fall | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

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