Word: larding
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...head grifter is Sydney Chaplin, who acts as if he were carved in lard. Love sets in when a raven-haired newsgal (Carol Lawrence) starts sharing Chaplin's bench in search of a story. They are a rueful twosome, about as happy as a pair of viruses. Actress Lawrence's musicomedy gifts are under smothering wraps, and the only unwrapped presents of the evening are Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman. Fighting hotel-room eviction by wearing nothing but a towel (they can't throw her out nude), Comedienne Newman has one of the two numbers that threaten...
...Whose body was found last week aboard the family yacht Angelita, along with $4,562,837 in U.S. currency and Dominican pesos. Airfreighted to Paris, the body was taken for burial to Pére-Lachaise Cemetery, resting place of Abélard and Héloïse, Chopin and Balzac...
...under which the rich minority get off easy. Three months ago, angling for Alliance for Progress aid, Velasco ordered new taxes. But instead of increasing the burden on the aristocracy, he slapped the little man with a series of excise taxes on 37 consumer items from soft drinks to lard. One levy even set tolls for the country's few paved roads, many of which were built with the $121 million in U.S. aid that Ecuador has received since World...
Smiling sweetly, the serpent of denial protested that she had never been told that the Congressmen were coming. The Congressmen melted like lard, particularly the one who sidled up close to her royal highness and sniggered: "I came, I saw, I conquered...
Infuriated. Harris took his case to the U.S. courts, finally won an order granting him the right to seize and sell Cuban equipment up to $429,000. Harris took to flying around in airplanes to spot boxcars of lard on remote railroad sidings, seized the very plane that was to take Castro home from the United Nations sessions in New York last September, set up his own private intelligence system to detect planes and boats arriving from Cuba...