Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promptly at midnight that night, aided by invaluable information gained from the 800 confessions, Singapore's British-trained police force of 5,000 went into action. While British troops garrisoned in Singapore mounted roadblocks in "purely coincidental military exercises," police swooped down on known Triad hideouts, within 48 hours had 60 gangsters behind bars. Lee plans to impose curfews on all known gang-dominated quarters of the city, to make the streets of Singapore safe to walk again...
Pigeons are pigeons, and their affinity for public statues is well-known to city dwellers. The Times of London took it upon itself to survey some of the city's monumental figures and their various states of inundation. William Ewart Gladstone: "The melancholy truth is that [he] does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left...
...title role, Tenor Sénéchal, in green tufted wig and high-heeled green shoes, made his way down the aisle to a spattering of applause. (For reasons best known to the French, the foolish old nymph in Platée was written for a tenor.) As Sénéchal launched into the music, he quickly demonstrated why he is one of France's most courted lyric tenors. The smooth, light-textured voice moved with ease from falsetto to full voice, changing shading and color as it kept pace with Tenor...
...offer, was instructed to play along-under the surveillance of Nassau County police detectives. Greene reported that he collected a total of $230 from Harris on two occasions. After the second payment, Harris, who denied all, was arrested, released on $500 bond. Maximum penalty for violating a little-known law: $500 and a year's jail term...
...supposed I would win a few thousand dollars and be known to a small television audience. But from an unknown college instructor, I became a national celebrity. I received thousands of letters and dozens of requests to make speeches, appear in movies and so forth. To a certain extent, this went to my head. I was winning more money than I ever dreamed of having. I was able to convince myself that I could make up for it after it was over . . . I didn't know what to do nor where to turn, and frankly, I was very much...