Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoothest confirmation hearing concerned John Mitchell, Nixon's former law partner and now his Attorney General. The 55-year-old bond expert told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would use electronic devices for "national security and against organized crime." Ramsey Clark, Mitchell's predecessor, had brusquely refused to obey a congressional directive to use wiretapping. Asked if he would mix politics with his work at the Justice Department, Mitchell answered that the 1968 campaign was "my first entry into politics, and I trust it will be my last...
...male; as Legman notes, women never compose dirty jokes but are nearly always the butt of them. The alleged insatiability of the female also runs as an undercurrent through that story-providing a way for the male who is worried about his sexual adequacy to blame it on his partner. This principle comes clear in the joke about a wife whose doctor informs her that her husband is suffering from the physical effects of dissipation: "Dissipation? But doctor, that's impossible. Why he's been home every night since we were married...
Starting out as a bodyguard and chauffeur, Valachi survived shifts in power as tricky as ups and downs under the Borgias. He and a partner made $2,500 a week from the slot-machine business. Valachi also ran a numbers racket, a "classy horse room" in White Plains, N.Y., and a loan-shark operation. He bought his own race horses. During World War II, Valachi worked the gasoline black market, earning about $200,000 in three years from finagling with ration stamps. Even at that, he says, "I wasn't so big." After the war, he muscled into jukeboxes...
...next night, Gallagher and his rebounding partner, Ernie Hardy, earned three personal fouls in the first ten minutes against Princeton and thus committed themselves to a lot of bench time...
Bertolt Brecht had a touching Teutonic faith in the power of the blow to instruct. Almost all his dramas are displays of belligerent didacticism. The stage was his prize ring. The audience was his sparring partner. There he was-"poor B.B.," as he always liked to think of himself-lashing out with a bruising ideological left to the midriff, jolting the playgoer with some brisk truism...