Word: podner
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...frowning old Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, was sent in from the federal bench to banish the "Black Sox" fixers of 1919 and restore righteousness. His law was arbitrary and final. Kuhn greatly admired Landis. The judge's successor, Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, was a posturing "ol' podner." The man who followed Chandler, Ford Frick, was a reluctant leader hesitant to decide anything. Next came General William D. Eckert, "the unknown soldier," a strategic and forlorn disaster...
...Dakota was amazed at the expertise. He said: "These people know as much about the old ways as some of us do." Surprisingly, only a handful of West Germany's Westerners have ever been to the U.S., and their English is generally limited to a drawled "howdy" or "podner...
...podner." That was the last time I ever spoke to George Lewis. He died of pneumonia three months later...
...people say we are gamblers," complains Clint Jr., "but that isn't true. In gambling, you are betting on Lady Luck; in speculating, you have your mind to help you, and you are betting on yourself." Whatever "speculator" may mean to most Americans, no one needs to smile, podner, when he says it to a Murchison...
...British, heartily suspicious of Makarios, thought his proposal too vaguely worded, and just "another Makarios trick," decided to go ahead with "partnership" despite Greek protests. Only Turkey said "Howdy, podner." Its special representative reported for duty to British Governor Sir Hugh Foot. But to soften passions, the Turks appointed as their adviser to Foot not someone from Ankara-who might have been welcomed at the airport with bombs-but the Turkish consul general in Nicosia, who was already there. Shrugged 55-year-old Burhan Ishin, a husky onetime Turkish national soccer star and longtime diplomat: "After all, I can only...