Word: palming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remembered the dogfights over Korea, when he shot down three MiGs the last week of the war. He remembered every detail, he said. Two of the enemy pilots had been very good, but the third was slow. Glenn moved his right hand, fingers straight, slowly upward toward the palm of his left to show how he had zoomed up from underneath and fired into the belly of the third MiG and then watched it drop to the Yalu River. As he talked, his eyes showed no emotion. Glenn long ago learned how to mask his feelings...
Some of the refugees found the U.S. a far from terrifying place even in the '50s. Most of them were quartered in a New Weimar set among palm trees. In Strangers in Paradise, John Russell Taylor, film critic of the Times of London, tells ironic tales out of court about the Hollywood settlers. Actors like Conrad Veidt and Otto Preminger, fleeing from Hitler, were hired to impersonate Nazis in war movies. Ernst Lubitsch, eager to propagandize against the Third Reich, directed a delicate, tentative farce, To Be or Not to Be, starring Jack Benny as a Polish ham actor...
...random may require." This is meant to explain why characters who die in Duluth can reappear in a TV show of the same name or a romance novel by a Rosemary Klein Kantor. Duluth is dislocated along the Mexican border next to "the winding Colorado River that empties into palm-lined Lake Erie...
Every Commencement, returning alumni get a particularly vivid demonstration of Harvard's pragmatism. From one side, the University's familiar agents hold out their many hands, palm up, underlining the power alumni carry in their purses. And from the other, typically, students and other groups, beg alumni to use that power of the purse for moral causes--to translate their concerns into the only language the University is likely to listen...
When it first went into the air two years ago, People Express had only three planes serving four cities: Newark, Columbus, Buffalo and Norfolk. Now, in addition to its new London flights, People has 22 aircraft flying to 19 U.S. cities stretching from Portland, Me., to West Palm Beach, Fla. Its quick success has come from cutting frills and slashing standard fares, often by more than half. Like its domestic flights, People's trips to London will offer few free amenities. Passengers will have to pay $6 extra for a food basket that might contain a tuna sandwich...