Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) is the dealer for Schwiefka's poker game, and a very good dealer he is, with "an arm of pure gold," an eye like an ice pick, and a nylon line that pays out smooth and hauls the suckers in. But Frankie is a man who carries "a 40-lb. monkey on [his] back," and the only way to knock the monkey off is to get a shot of joy in the main vein. He kicks the habit when he does a stretch in stir, and swears off cards, too, when he comes...
...Radicals, Robert Schuman's Popular Republicans, and Antoine Pinay's conservative Independents. With the main battle lines drawn, political observers guessed that Faure-Pinay rightists would emerge as the biggest winners with about 250 seats, Mendes and his allies with perhaps 150; the Communists were expected to pick up 20 seats or so for a total of 120. Thus the probability was a new Assembly divided into three major blocs, with no clear majority, and nearly as ungovernable...
...University will pick up anything at a reasonable price in the area," Brown said. Seven houses and several vacant lots on the land are already owned by Harvard, and another building is part of an entailed, and as yet unsettled, estate. In addition, University realtors have contacted residents living between the proposed site and Banks Street, the eastern boundary of the block. Since property owners on the other side of Grant Street maintain that they will refuse to sell under any conditions, any expansion of the site must take place in the direction of Banks Street...
...with heart disease comes from a businessman: Victor Cullin, a vice president of the Chicago Title & Trust Co. "It was Sept. 18, 1948, a Saturday," says Cullin. "At about noon I was on the eleventh hole when I felt this pain in my chest. As I stooped over to pick up my ball, I thought maybe I had been smoking too many cigarettes-at the time, two or three packs a day. I finished the hole, and by the time I was on the twelfth, I was perspiring. I drove the 13th, but I realized I was through...
...première-goers. Two important rules: never show up on time ("Gauge your timing according to your prestige; no self-respecting big star would dream of showing up by 8:30"), and provide "double insurance" ("By accidentally dropping a glove or handkerchief and starting to lean over to pick it up, a star can often put her best features forward for the photographers...