Word: plaines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Even Coffee. Jimmy's personal life is, in fact, simple and unassuming. Money, for its own sake, is apparently unimportant. He still lives in a nondescript northwest neighborhood in Detroit, in a plain brick house that he bought in 1939 for $6,800. A man of simple tastes, he always wears white socks because colored ones "make my feet sweat." Says Harold Gibbons: "Remember, Jimmy doesn't smoke, drink or chase women." As a matter of fact, he doesn't even drink coffee...
...figures he can always buy what he wants." Adds a West Coast lawyer: "Jimmy Hoffa believes that anything can be accomplished and will seize a way to do it. You could count Dave Beck as being tough, but he's an angel alongside of Hoffa. Hoffa is just plain ruthless. Beck rants and snorts. As a last resort, he would use group physical violence, but he wouldn't have anyone bumped off. Hoffa wouldn't stop at anything...
...over the visitors' dugout, took careful aim and treated Yankee Manager Casey Stengel to a faceful of beer. The response was expansive. "He wasn't cheap," said Casey of the attacker. "He hit me with a full cup." The feelings on both sides of the matter were plain. The White Sox were in the process of piddling away what might well be their last chance at the pennant...
...that, in the end, Producer Zanuck and Director King do not quit when Hemingway is ahead. The film's semihappy ending is an altogether sappy ending. The book made it plain that there was no hope for Jake and Brett ever to alter or escape their anguished, futile bondage. Yet the movie has them finally agreeing to the silver-lined proposition that "there must be some answer for us -somewhere...
...against La Mesa, Calif, (a team that averaged 5 ft. 4 in., 127 lbs.), Coach Faz tried something far more spectacular than extra sleep. He called on his best pitcher, ambidextrous Angel Macias, a twelve-year-old 88-pounder with a fine assortment of curves and sliders, plus a plain, old-fashioned fast ball under disciplined control. Against Bridgeport, Angel had played a flawless game at shortstop. He can, in fact, play any position on the team-becomes a southpaw on first base, a righthander in the rest of the infield, whatever he happens to feel like when he switches...