Word: guttered
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...Sullivan has long seemed to me to be willing to go to the gutter to find a hero." To prove it, Peg unwrapped a 1929 Sullivan column eulogizing Frank Marlow, a murdered Manhattan mobster ("Goodbye, Frank, and God bless you."). Pegler's verdict on Sullivan: "A prideful intimacy with many of the worst gangsters ... a professional name-dropper, a grown-up but still callow Saturday night sport...
...walked out of Memorial Hall into the sunlight, and breathed a deep, deep sigh. Well, hour exams were over. For a moment he gazed absently at the small, almost blank piece of paper, and then crushed it into a ball and pitched it into the gutter of Cambridge Street. The throwing arm didn't feel so good. As Vag strolled down through the Yard, now almost completely shaded by the trees, he decided that he had still been right in coming during the hot months. But the Yard was almost deserted; there was only one word...
...commanded: "Eeh, Du! Komm!" The German froze, casting a terrified glance over his shoulder at the frightened stream of men & women who were trying not to see or hear. The Russian waved his Tommy gun and curled his lip. "Komm!" He pushed his petrified recruit roughly into the gutter...
...back their gambling spirit with refineries, tankers, filling stations - and millions in hard cash. In this blue-chip game, the jackpot is the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the string of tiny sheikdoms in the rolling sand dunes around the Persian Gulf - Bahrein, Kuwait and Qatar (pronounced gutter...
Curley is an orator with power in his voice reminiscent of William Jennings Bryan. After one of his court convictions, he shouted to a lecture hall jammed with adorers. "That isn't James Michael Curley they have lying in the gutter. It is you ... and you ... and you." As his finger pointed almost accusingly at faces before him, even the disinterested could feel the impact of the psychology that keeps his graft and corruption almost above criticism...