Word: pal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also indicted: Dave Beck Jr.; Mrs. Dave Beck Sr.'s cousin, Norman Gessert; Teamsters Auditor Fred Verschueren; Beck's pal and personal financier, Chicago Labor-Relations Consultant Nathan Shefferman; and Shefferman's son, Shelton...
...defamed and who suffered innocently. How can it happen that Stalin committed such gross and grave mistakes? This is a complicated question, comrades." But for so complicated a question, Khrushchev suggested a simple answer : "Stalin's personal shortcomings were taken advantage of" by the wicked Beria and his pal Comrade Malenkov...
...signed notes or offered collateral. In most cases there was no evidence that the payments to Hoffa actually were loans. ¶ A Hoffa acquaintance set up Test Fleet Corp., a truck-leasing firm, in the maiden names of Hoffa's wife (Josephine Poszywak) and the wife of his pal, Owen Bert Brennan (Alice Johnson). Test Fleet got its trucks through the good offices of a Detroit trucking firm, Commercial Carriers, Inc., which then leased the equipment back from Test Fleet. The wives invested only $4,000 in cash in the venture, borrowed $50,000 more-on a note signed...
...whom West Berliners really liked. For twelve years, as the city's top bomb expert, he had Berlin's toughest and most dangerous job-defusing the thousands of unexploded bombs and shells still hidden in the debris of the shattered city. With his close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered a nest of three blockbusters smack...
...true book size. As Robert Cohn, the unwanted, brooding Jew, Mel Ferrer is especially convincing. The fascinating quintet converging on Pamplona for the fiesta is rounded out by Errol Flynn (wonderful as boozy Mike Campbell, the happy-went-lucky bankrupt) and Eddie Albert (as Bill Gorton, everybody's pal...