Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand to the other. The road agent's spin was used when a man was forced to surrender his gun. As he handed it to his enemy, butt first, he slipped his forefinger through the trigger-guard, at the last minute spun the butt back into his palm and started chucking lead...
...want palm-tree justice," says one of Ayub's ministers, and a Western diplomat calls the new regime "a relaxed dictatorship." The velvet glove has been more apparent than the iron fist, and as a result some of the old black-marketing, corrupt ways were returning. But last week the government took its first decisive action against the corrupt in high places...
When press photographers were in range, Reuther dodged palm tree backgrounds, wore a business suit and kept his bulging briefcase prominently at hand as a businesslike prop. He refused to go near the water, scheduled a breakfast-to-dinner round of indoor conferences with his underlings. But his battle against pleasure made little headway with the majority of some 200 labor chiefs, relatives and staffers, who refreshed themselves on the beach with a mammoth rum drink called the "Tropical Itch," went sun-scorched to San Juan's casinos and nightclubs...
...Reynolds and Crooner Eddie Fisher was over. Except for the property settlement and alimony. Eddie was free, although under California law he may not marry the other woman, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, until the divorce becomes final after a year. But freedom's price was high. Debbie kept: a Palm Springs ranch, seven life insurance policies, three bank accounts, a Lincoln, the family camping equipment, a Jeep equipped for uranium prospecting, title to their $125,000 West Los Angeles home; got custody of and support for their two children, alimony of $36,000 for a start, dropping...
Majority might be subtitled Halfway Around the World with Molly Goldberg (radio and TV Actress Berg's 29-year-long other life). She is the past mistress of the eloquent shrug, the rising inflection, the beautifully timed thrusting palm-up, down and out-the gently jabbing elbow ("So-it's settled...