Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiting to meet us. They happily cut loose with machine-gun and rifle fire into the air. Groups of ten or 20 in tur bans and long gallabiyas stood on wrecked enemy tanks that marked the farthest Israeli penetration into Suez. They waved Egyptian flags, along with olive and palm branches, and chanted: "Welcome to Suez. Salute the heroes who destroyed 32 Israeli tanks." An old man, a cage of pigeons at his feet and a cup of tea in his hand, flashed a toothless grin and chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is the greatest...
...team, former Rhodes scholar and America's top college ballplayer during his Princeton days; and Ernestine Schlant, an associate professor of comparative literature at Montclair State College in New Jersey, who met Bradley while she was working on a film about Poetess Marianne Moore several years ago; in Palm Beach...
...sorry, sir, your credit card has expired," said the Butler Aviation official at Palm Beach International Airport. The short, gray-haired man in the blue sports outfit had just stepped off a silver-gray and blue Olympic Airways Learjet, which had stopped for refueling on a flight from Acapulco, Mexico, to New York. But it seems that Greek Oil Tanker Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 67, had failed at a simple piece of domestic scheduling: his Shell Oil credit card was out of date, and Ari had no charge account with Butler. So while he coped with the necessary paper work...
...spread of a rare form of can cer, Teddy Kennedy Jr., 12, appears to be making an excellent recovery. Having adjusted to his new leg well enough to walk a few steps without crutches, Teddy confidently joined a pre-Christmas family sledding party in Virginia. Then he arrived at Palm Beach for a vacation with his family at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy. He rejected a waiting wheelchair at the airport and made his own way to the car. The next day, Teddy, wearing shorts, was seen tooling along a local bike path on an adult tricycle...
...flurry of charges and countercharges, the case has come down to a cruel stalemate. The strongest piece of physical evidence in the crime is four palm prints found in the Percy mansion, but they have proved not to be Hohimer's or Malchow's. The remaining physical evidence is scant and ambiguous, and none of it directly links either Hohimer or Malchow to the crime. Yet by the testimony of witnesses, one of the members of the burglary gang is the likely killer. Said William Hanhardt, commander of the Chicago police department's burglary division: "Malchow...