Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shining object and uncovered the end of a metal tube. The tube led them under the distillery walls, 100 yds. along a ditch, across a meadow, into a garage on the national highway."Mon Dieu! What a scheme!" said an admiring Frenchman. "You just turn a spigot and the liquor gushes out!" Arrested in Belgium, Garageowner Edouard Welcomme and his wife implicated others, and soon the town of Hazebrouck was filled with denunciations and counter-denunciations. Result: Abel Vandamme, a rich textile manufacturer living in a castle near Lille, and accused of being the "brain" of a gang of brandy...
...center-fielding DiMaggio dynasty ended when Dominic ("The Little Professor") DiMaggio, 35, fleet, spectacled Boston Red Sox fly hawk (lifetime batting average: .298) announced his voluntary retirement, 13 years after his major-league debut, to join in pasture big brothers Joe (now a television performer) and Vince (now a liquor salesman...
...game guns, nitroglycerin). The police reported that the "oligarchs" had ordered 1,000 identically cut grey suits, supposedly for use as uniforms in some future uprising. The 17th precinct station became a sort of society resort. One Buenos Aires matron, unable to send wine to her son because "liquor is not allowed in the jail," was heard to cry, "How barbarous...
...scheme ... for the obvious purpose of attempting to produce a scandal." But the Item had the last word. The police department fired Patrolman Brackman for failing to make a prompt report of the bribe offer. And last week the bar-brothel where the baby had been found lost its liquor license. Crowed Tommy Stern's Item: "The Picayune complained . . . that the revenue department investigation 'benefited the Item to the exclusion of other media of public expression.' Cleared of gobbledygook, this means if the Picayune and States had been let in on the investigation, it would have smelled...
...grounds of cruelty after summing up his life with Rosa: i) he had served her breakfast in bed for 20 years; 2) she kicked him while he was scrubbing the floor; 3) she smashed her glass when he put water in her gin; 4) she accepted love letters and liquor from his next-door neighbor; 5) he was so terrified of her that he frequently slept on the floor -"an unpleasant experience in winter...