Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the sunbaked, palm-dotted town of Tuxtla Gutiérrez near the Guatemalan border, 97 carefully tuned automobiles set off last week on the first northward lap of the second Pan-American stock-car race, a five-day, 1,933-mile scramble sponsored by Mexico's National Automobile Association. Competing with Mexican speed demons for $68,000 in prizes-and the glory of beating some of the world's nerviest racers to Ciudad Juarez-were two-man teams from the U.S., Canada, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, France and Italy. Ahead of them were the hairpin curves, roller-coaster...
Standing before the fireplace in his Washington home one night last week, big Theron Lamar Caudle was not his jovial self. He shifted nervously from foot to foot, and smacked a clenched fist again & again into the open palm of his hand. Reporters were filing into the house to hear what Caudle, chief of the Justice Department's tax division, had to say in defense of himself...
...were General Eisenhower. I'd do exactly what General Lee would have done if he'd been General Eisenhower!"); the nubile, doe-eyed golddigger who is mock-terrified in the clinches ("But where is all this leading us to, Mr. Hartman-Miami? Palm Beach? Hollywood?"); and the gimlet-eyed old biddy who adores baseball players ("We do sell them sometimes, lady, but only to other teams...
...happy couple got into a light plane and flew to Palm Springs. It was rough. Marion rested in a bungalow at the Racquet Club after the plane landed. Said Uncle Horace: "My little girl scuttled the bomb explosion. They [the photographers] were there for the bomb, but when they heard about her they said, 'The hell with the bomb!' " Of his earlier friendship with Marion, he said: "I never would have married Marion-then. I thought too much of the old man to have such thoughts...
...canvases and drawings seldom had anything to do with the barracks or battlefield, and they showed little or no interest in abstraction. Most of the artists, ranging from buck privates to a lieutenant general,* concentrated on pleasantly realistic landscapes of such things as the Swiss Alps and palm-studded Pacific islands...