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...sits, boys," cried the boss of the tugs. "Blow your horns!" The spirit of the occasion even moved the staid Queen Juliana. She tossed her purse to a surprised cop, waved away courtiers clucking in alarm, waded ankle-deep in the construction-site muck to reach the ladder and clamber to the top of Caisson...
...Sick, sorry and cold, As muck upon mould I wither away...
...impresario. Beecham had another important career-he was a gadfly committed to "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against the dry rot that one observes everywhere in this unhappy land." His coat of arms might have been emblazoned with his personal credo: "Improve the standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" Beecham was sometimes referred to as the greatest amateur in musical history -partially because he was financially independent, partially because he approached his music with a relaxed urbanity foreign to such great, tyrannical contemporaries as Toscanini or Reiner. Despite the ferocity of his public utterances, he handled...
...Apalachin raid was one of the most celebrated in U.S. police history: that spectacular occasion in November 1957 when New York State cops and federal agents picked up 63 high-muck-a-mucks of U.S. crimedom, all from one barbecue pit. That day, big-time hoods from as far away as Arizona and California arrived to roast steaks and toast marshmallows at the secluded estate of a beer distributor and longtime racketeer named Joseph Barbara...
Perhaps the strongest defensive asset the Tigers can claim is their clever goalie, Mickey Michel, In cold, rain, and muck here last year, Michel turned in several acrobatic sayes, and more than any other Tiger contributed to Princeton's 1-0 victory...