Word: hangout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visiting his home town with his wife and children examines his bizarre behavior at a drugstore (a childhood hangout). "It seemed to him now that he had gone to the drugstore on purpose that morning. . . . It had been intended to satisfy some passing and unnamed need of his, but the adventure had cut too deep in his memory, and into what was more than mere memory . . . cut beyond all the good sense and reasonableness that made life seem worthwhile-or even tolerable." Matt finds his dark face-his hostile violent face-"a monstrous obtrusion on the relatively bright scene that...
...chanting of a mantra or two. His earnings from such activities currently run to a minimum of $30,000 a year, most of which he gives away to needy young writers and film makers. His own pad in New York's East Village serves as a communal hangout for the hung...
...Martin Luther King Jr. was buried in April 1968, five young Negroes in Benson, N.C., set fire to a rundown service station that was known as a Ku Klux Klan hangout. Damages came to less than $100, but last October the five youths were sentenced to twelve years apiece in prison. A month ago, Judge William Bickett frankly confessed that he might have been guilty of "bad judgment" in the cases of Percy Valle Barfield, 17, Frederick Lockamy, 18, Leo Stewart Jr., 19, Dubois Scotty Gather, 20, and Jesse Jones, 21. Bickett noted that a race riot had broken...
...dialogue sounds like a Grade-B gangster movie on late-night television, but the script is from life. It is a chillingly real conversation that took place among three Mafia hoodlums in their hangout. The subject of the session: methods of dispatching associates to a better world. This and other candid peeps at organized crime became available last week when a 2,000-page transcript of FBI tape recordings was filed in Federal District Court in Newark, N.J. The tapes were presented by the district attorney in connection with extortion-conspiracy charges against Simone Rizzo ("Sam the Plumber") De-Cavalcante...
...gave as his reason the latest in a long series of off-the-field scraps. This time the quarrel was with N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had demanded that Joe relinquish his one-third interest in Bachelors III, a Manhattan watering place said to have become a gamblers' hangout. "Rozelle told me I must get out of the restaurant business or be suspended," Joe said. "I don't think it's right, so I'm getting out of football." Might the differences be resolved? "I hope so," he replied. "The last thing I want...