Word: popper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teeny-bopper (Susan Dey); a young wife on the verge of giving birth (Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps clutching at a large black satchel stashed under his seat. One among these is a skyjacker. Guess...
...Memphis theater. As he recalls: "I was soon making more than the theater manager, so he threw me out and took over the popcorn concession himself." Wilson sold him the machine in 1931 for the original $50, then invested the money in five pinball machines. (He later bought the popper back, and it now stands in his office.) By 1933 he had saved $1,700-all from nickels pumped into his machines-and used it to build a house. Soon after, Wilson was able to borrow $6,500 on the house from a bank. "Right then," he says, "I decided...
...zone, and then, as we're being arrested, an officer taking his Louisville Slugger and smashing the front windshield of our van, and then slashing the tires with a knife. And coming back four hours later to try to pick up the van, and finding the police had exploded popper gas inside, and watching the cops across the street laugh as we choke. A police sergeant came up to me, "What's the matter boy?" "I ran into a little gas." "Oh, well, watch it, you could get arrested for hanging around places where there...