Word: levying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...difficult to correct. Well-meaning Mayor Kennelley had announced plans for a 900-acre renewal program, but was never able to translate those plans into substantive action. It remained for Daley, using every instrument of his political power, to make the project really move. He teamed up with Julian Levi, the university's own slum-clearance leader, adopted and reinforced Levi's organized community assaults on greedy landlords and local crime. Today, the area's deterioration has been stemmed with the construction of nearly 2,000 housing units, as well as shopping facilities and new university additions...
...comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball, called and slopped hogs, milked cows, and walked through fields eating...
...dusty parking lot in San Angelo, Texas, was jammed with out-of-state cars from as far away as Pennsylvania, and the stands that were built to handle 1,400 spectators had to make do for 3,500. Unshaven cowboys in faded Levi's waved fistfuls of greenbacks and haggled over the odds with Houston oilmen in embroidered shirts. A volunteer comedian told ancient jokes to try to keep tension down as the crowd awaited the biggest rodeo event in years: a matched roping contest between two champion lariat handlers. The stakes were $3,700 in cash, a share...
...peers) that the teen-ager likes. The success of the Stick, which is jammed six nights a week with undulating youngsters, has led to the creation of two other teen-age nightclubs in the Los Angeles area: the Cinnamon Cinder (a "supper club" where supper means pizza and "no Levi's or Capris" are permitted) and Pandora's Box, a slightly more sophisticated version of the plain old teen-age club. Pandora's has the distinction of having ejected Hollywood Starlet Tuesday Weld, who claimed to be 18, was adjudged overage...
...Though bitterly anti-American, Mosley financed British-style fascism on a fortune inherited by his first wife from her grandfather, Chicago merchant prince Levi Z. Leiter. After her death he married Diana Mitford, whose blonde sister Unity was Hitler's good friend. In the '20s, before his fascist days, he was seriously reckoned as a future Prime Minister...