Word: pal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want me, well, come and get me," growled Craig. Bentley, though already under arrest, shouted to his pal: "Let him have it, Chris!" Chris Craig emptied his Colt automatic, and one of its .45-cal. slugs killed Police Constable Sidney Miles. The cops, prohibited by English law from carrying firearms, had to rush a man to the nearest station house to sign an emergency application and get a pistol. When it arrived, Detective-Constable Fairfax opened fire. Craig, unhit but scared, jumped 25 feet to the ground and was captured...
...crony, White House Aide Donald Dawson. Whitehair was not a hit with the admirals, who thought that he neglected the Navy in favor of politics in his home state of Florida. They were scandalized when he gave an $11,800-a-year job to William E. Willett, another Dawson pal whom the Senate had refused to reconfirm as an RFC director (TIME, Dec. 24, 1951). Worst of all was Whitehair's arrogance. He told one admiral: "When you come in here to see me, bring a notebook with you." Navy Secretary Dan Kimball intended to resign a year...
...connections with Mickey and Apples, Witness Genova worked steadily for years. But in 1947 Apples had a barroom fight with a milk truck driver and got his face badly chopped by a broken beer glass during the struggle. Genova was unwise enough to sympathize with his old pal, Apples. "This guy has got to go," Apples told him, "and I want somebody ... to take care of him." Genova refused...
Genova testified that he first heard of Bowers through John ("Apples") Applegate, an old pal from Sing Sing. Shortly thereafter a hood named Gregory the Bandit was mysteriously shot to death in a Twelfth Avenue barroom. Gregory was the pistol local's delegate. Mickey Bowers moved...
...Sandbag Castle, Joe canceled his own furlough, volunteered to stay and help build bunkers. He was standing in a shallow trench, filling bags with sand, when five mortar shells came in. Joe was hit from head to foot by fragments, thrown on his back. He called to his Katusa Pal Choi ("Jacky") Chang Moon: "Where are my legs? Where are my hands?" They were dangling. He was rushed to the R.O.K. hospital in Pusan, where surgeons amputated all four limbs, and he became the fourth quadruple amputee of the Korean...