Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the career of a ghostly gunman who was making a practice of sniping at citizens from no one knew where. The winter exercising and drinking season was beginning, with skiers heading for New Hampshire, Sun Valley and Yosemite, the bathing suit and dark glasses set for Florida and Palm Springs. Variety reported that the stress of holiday sentimentality had pushed Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to first place on the list of bestselling sheet music; The Thing had slipped to eighth...
Kenneth Keniston '51, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Eliot House, and John L. Moore '51, of West Palm Beach, Florida, and Eliot House, have received Rhodes Scholarships...
Everybody agreed that Jake had done badly, but who would take his place? Some of his cronies asked him to stay on. Jake, heading for Palm Springs for a rest, promised to think it over...
...morning last week, a green sedan rolled into the palm-shaded cobblestone square before San Juan's Fortaleza, the 300-year-old residence of Governor Luis Mufioz Marin. Out of the car burst six members of Puerto Rico's desperate little Nationalist Party. Armed with pistols, rifles and a machine gun, they sprinted for the palace entrance. Yelling "Viva Puerto Rico libre," one Nationalist got off a wild submachine-gun burst. From the arcade, from parapets, from rooftops, guards poured fire down on the attackers...
...what he said (in the 1945 election, 67 of them were elected Labor M.P.s). A brilliant man who could read 200 pages in an hour ("diabolically clever and omniscient," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes), he was also a spectacular lecturer. Sometimes gesturing excitedly and sometimes staring motionless at his palm, he spoke "with a force and conviction," recalls one student, "that sent us all away determined to reshape the world...