Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story brick house of Major Wilmer McLean at Appomattox, Va., on Palm Sunday, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieut. General Ulysses S. Grant. That act signified the end of the Civil War, and with it the bloodshed that cost the lives of 618,000 men-more than have died in all of America's other wars combined...
...designed to knife through the usually choppy, churning seas. Last week Bertram was back with a brand-new, 38-ft. "heavy weather" boat powered by twin 550-h.p. General Motors diesels. But where was the weather? The 183-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau was as calm as a Palm Beach swimming pool. "Any ski boat could win this race," sneered one disgruntled skipper as 46 competitors lined up for the start...
Italian is one language in which a deaf-mute is not completely lost. Every facial tic, every finger flick, means something. A thumb jabbed at the mouth: "Waiter, bring some wine." A semi-rotating hand with thumb and forefinger up: "No can do." One raised finger: "Probably." Palm open: "Probably not." Tapping the center of the forehead: "Do you think I'm stupid?" Extended fingers slowly rubbing the underchin: "I couldn't care less...
...club attendant; of a .45-cal. bullet wound in the head, shortly after which her estranged husband, Actor Tom Neal, 51, the man who hospitalized Franchot Tone ("I was on him like a cat") in their 1951 brawl over Actress Barbara Payton, was booked on suspicion of murder; in Palm Springs...
...across the track for the Le Mans start, two drivers leaped into their Ford-Cobras, punched the starter buttons-and sat there feeling silly when nothing happened. An Italian Grifo sports car ran off the track, injuring two spectators, and a French Abarth-Simca piled head-on into a palm tree. But Hall's only problem was Dan Gurney, the "rabbit" of the Ford team, whose job was to battle the Texan for the early lead, try to make him burn out his engine. Hall gave better than he got: gunning his Chaparral round the course at 104 m.p.h...