Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...railroad worker in Houston's Fifth Ward, a ghetto that even today throbs with uneasily repressed violence. His parents separated when George was a boy, and he dropped out of school in the eighth grade, quickly becoming a terror on the streets. Drunk on rotgut wine, "Monkey" Foreman was a savage gang fighter. "When we started a fight, we'd look around to see if Monkey was there," recalls Don Thomas, a former gang member with Foreman. "You had two or three cats whipped...
Ambassador to France Myron Herrick of the 25-year-old pilot, "the very embodiment of fearless, kindly, cultivated American youth-unspoiled, unspoilable." Lindbergh was offered a $1 million movie contract, another $1 million to go into vaudeville, and presents that ranged from a live monkey to a home in Flushing Meadows, N. Y. Most of the presents were declined or turned over to the Missouri Historical Society, and one of the few contracts he accepted was one to write his own story, We-the other person being his airplane...
...baseball fans it is a great moment in history-like the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock or King John's signing the Magna Carta. There stands Babe Ruth with two strikes on him, gorilla-chested, monkey-faced, pipestem-legged, pointing imperiously to deep centerfield. It is the 1932 World Series against Chicago in Wrigley Field, and when Cub Pitcher Charlie Root fires the ball, the Babe hits a vast home run to the very spot, winning the ball game. Unfortunately, things did not happen quite that way. But, as Robert Creamer demonstrates again and again in this book...
...plain-spoken former grease monkey and TWA flight engineer from Bridgeport, Conn., Schwimmer can barely speak Hebrew after 22 years in Israel. Many military men were troubled by the key role that a civilian with a U.S. passport was playing in their country's defense. Israel's Connecticut Yankee has survived, however, and not just because Dayan has been replaced by Shimon Peres, a Schwimmer champion for years. Pressed by mounting criticism and Dayan's maneuvering, Schwimmer decided just before the October war to reveal I.A.I.'s balance sheet for the first time-and the figures...
...Monkey Business and Coconuts are going to be taken out of circulation for a while because of the re-release of Animal Crackers, and if you haven't seen either of these yet and you need some cheering up, head over to the Park Sq. Cinema. Both films are classics, and the only movies that are any funnier are other Marx Bros. comedies...