Word: pimp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like this? Is it because of some pimp who is using you, exploiting you for his satisfaction? Aren't you tired of all this? Isn't it about time you gave yourself a break?" These words come not from the script of a new soap opera but from a letter Police Inspector Charles Peterson is distributing to streetwalkers in his district, the Midtown North precinct of Manhattan, which encompasses Times Square. Peterson's fatherly missive, handed out to every girl arrested for plying her trade in Midtown North, is the latest tactic in the current and-like...
...figured that the Baby was a solid investment." The court chided Pierre Isnard, 59, Tonnot's deputy, for leading Simonnin astray. "You should have advised him, 'Don't get involved in this kind of business. If you want to become a pimp, wait until your retirement.' " Simonnin got a year in jail and a $14,000 fine. Isnard got three months...
...Even Bob Monashan of The Globe is over .500. However, there is one consolation. Think of all the good friends on the team I made this year. As one player cheerfully advised me. "I wouldn't take too many late night walks between Eliot and Kirkland House, you little pimp or you'll eat your typewriter...
...Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames; but unaccountably, villain and pimp were acceptable. The council also suggested that people with Jewish-sounding names, even if they were not Jews, should be encouraged to change them, the better to avoid "a repetition of the events of the last...
...gain a breakthrough which will lead to promotion. In the process, they use Lockley as a pawn to further their plan, and they risk the life of an audacious female undercover agent, Past Butler, whose voluntary role in the scheme is to bed down with a high-rolling black pimp who works Times Square. The irony upon which Mills builds his book is that Lockley--the fumbling, naive newcomer--spoils the plan in a frantic effort to do his job well, to show Seidensticker and the other detectives that he is capable of success. But he doesn...