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Just why they singled out William F. Niehous, general manager of Owens-Illinois' Venezuelan operation, is unclear. But on the evening of Feb. 27, seven armed guerrillas broke into the American glass-company executive's home in an affluent suburb of Caracas. While his wife and a maid watched helplessly, Niehous, 44, was injected with a soporific and carried into the night. At first it was expected that the ultra-leftist terrorists, like the majority of their counterparts in Uruguay and Argentina, would simply demand that a huge ransom be paid by the company...
...Hiss was aware that the old Woodstock typewriter had been given to the son of a woman who had been the Hiss family maid. Even so, Hiss told the FBI and a federal grand jury that it had probably been sold to a secondhand dealer in Washington...
...Weinstein of bias and called his conclusions "childish." But he did not refute most of those conclusions, including Weinstein's contentions-based on a letter that one defense lawyer had written to another in 1948-that Hiss knew that the Woodstock typewriter had been given away to the maid's son. Instead, Hiss merely reiterated an oft-leveled accusation that the typewriter produced at his perjury trial had a serial number (Woodstock N230099) that indicated it was manufactured one year later than the one he had once owned. Insisted Hiss: "I never handed Whittaker Chambers any State Department...
After 28 years of plugging orange juice for the folks at Minute Maid, Crooner Bing Crosby will soon sing the praises of a more potent libation. At a $10,000 bash for the press in Beverly Hills last week, Crosby, 75, and Comedian Phil Harris, 69, announced the formation of their own import company. The pair's first product: Mexico's Herradura Tequila, a blue-chip potable that will sell in the U.S. for $13 a fifth. "It's a natural," says der Bingle. "Phil has been known to take a drink from time to time...
...litter. It has several of his best wry vignettes, and the rudest of the crude underground hits he'll be remembered by: I really do appreciate the fact you're sitting here Your voice sounds so wonderful But your face don't look so clear. So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw...