Word: hood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skalla, 25, a petty hood who was to be sentenced this week on a robbery and burglary conviction, finally went to the police and gave the whole plot away. "He's a tough guy," said Skalla of his pal, "and I'm scared to death of him. He told me that if I wouldn't go along with him, he'd take me out in the desert and bury me." The police told him to go along with Bailey. They then staked out the Firestone house, even went so far as to rent for Skalla...
...sweltering summer day in 1959, a pedestrian waited impatiently to cross a street in downtown Richmond, Va., while a car blocked the intersection. The driver, busily chatting with a friend out the window, would not move on. His patience exhausted, the pedestrian finally bolted across the hood of the auto. Unfortunately for him, the driver turned out to be an off-duty policeman who promptly haled him to court, where he was charged with malicious mischief and fined...
Readers, who had often felt the urge to march across an auto hood, responded generously. Before long, Kilpatrick was dispensing justice right and left. Beadle Bumble paid the fines...
Lincoln Gordon, former professor at the Business School and Ambassador to Brazil, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He will replace jack Hood Vaughn, the new director of the Peace Corps...
Brechtian theory is all the rage with your smart act these days, and it is reliably reported that one cannot so much as whistle a few bars of "Mack the Knife" in the Square without some pomaded hood appearing from a crevice to explain the finer points of Alienation and Epic Theatre. That David Wheeler and his Theatre Company of Boston have decided to do Brecht their own way is, in itself, refreshing. Describing his brilliant production of Galileo in San Francisco, Herbert Blau wrote, "In approaching Galileo quite differently -- after years of pondering Brechtian notions -- my trust is that...