Word: hoovers
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Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...tour de force, an astonishing set piece that captures the sweep and emotions of those tumultuous few hours in the Polo Grounds as experienced by, among many others, the radio announcer Russ Hodges ("The Giants win the pennant!"), attendant celebrities Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason, Toots Shor and J. Edgar Hoover (yes, DeLillo learned later, they were really present), and a fictional black kid named Cotter Martin, who jumps the turnstiles to get in at the beginning and makes off, at the end of the game, with Thomson's home-run ball...
THOMAS SOWELL, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the author of several books on race...
Joseph D. McNamara, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, served as police chief of San Jose, Calif., after retiring from the N.Y.P.D...
...CLARENCE KELLEY, 85, sturdy, reliable FBI chief who restored respectability to the agency; in Kansas City, Mo. Earning a reputation for incorruptibility at the Kansas City police department, Kelley was appointed by Richard Nixon in 1973 to head the bureau, which had been compromised by Watergate and J. Edgar Hoover's autocratic legacy. Kelley brought the FBI into the computer age, using advanced technologies to crack down on white-collar crime...