Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ugly mob anywhere in the world; some fanciers claim that a Middle East mob is the worst, although objective observers who have seen well-educated Chinese hoodlums from Singapore colleges getting to work with fire and iron on prostrate policemen are inclined to award them the palm; but all fair-minded witnesses will agree that a Djakarta mob in full cry under a noon sun ... can hold its own in world company...
...white Bangkok-silk suit, she was playing the richest woman in the world and even celeb-weary Italians were starstruck. Every one cheered delightedly a few days later when Ingrid, her Co-Star Anthony Quinn and Bette Davis-all two-time Oscar winners-were awarded Italy's own palm, the Silver Mask award, for exceptional contributions to the screen...
...steamy, palm-shaded Kuching, capital of Sarawak, the day's biggest excitement is the firing of the 8 p.m. cannon on the lawn of government house. "What a dull place," said a United Nations official. "I don't know how we're going to survive three weeks here." At the insistence of Indonesia's President Sukarno, an eight-member U.N. team is present to "ascertain" whether Sarawak and North Borneo really want to join the Federation of Malaysia, which Sukarno bitterly opposes. As the U.N. ascertainers began to sample opinions around Sarawak, they were nearly stoned...
Built on about a third of an acre in the center of Los Angeles only a few minutes' walk from his office, it is enclosed by a stone wall and designed around a sweep of palm trees?one of which grows up through the roof. There is a 90-ft. swimming pool, a dining area that can be three separate rooms or a single one big enough to seat 120 people. Each of the four bedrooms is designed to do double duty as a study, each has complete privacy, and each is near the kitchen. And the big thing about...
...West Palm Beach...