Word: pusher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crippen emerges as one of those improbable figures that hold the headlines of the British penny-dreadful press. He is a poor man's pill-pusher, a sallow runt with "codfish eyes" and a large compensatory mustache, which doesn't impress his wife. "You're not a man!" she hoots at him. "Go clean the lodger's boots!" And while her husband cleans the lodger's boots, she nibbles the lodger's ear. After several years of playing the cuckold, creepy little Crippen dares at last to play the man-with a pretty young...
...diplomat may be only a cookie pusher, but the kind of cookies pushed by Indonesia's charge d'affaires in Copenhagen tumbled, not crumbled. Last week Danish police announced that Gustin Santawirja not only ran his country's embassy, until he returned home last August, but was also a procurer on the side...
Valachi is an aging (60), two-bit punk-once a thief, a dope pusher, a willing killer for syndicate chiefs, now turned stool pigeon. Yet last week he found U.S. Senators treating him with patronizing respect. John McClellan addressed him warmly as "Joe," inquired if he wasn't tired from testifying, quickly adjourned the hearings until this week when the mug from the Mafia said he was indeed weary. In fact, Valachi's act was introduced-with some pride-by none other than Bobby Kennedy, Attorney General of the U.S. Boasted Bobby: "For the first time an insider...
...cockpit Stearman PT-17 trainer some 20-odd years old. "Everything these days has two engines, five radios and windshield wipers," complained Pete Bowers, 45, an engineer for Boeing. "That's fine for traveling, but not for flying." Then he climbed into his 1912 Bullock-Curtis tri-wing pusher, bounced off the runway at 35 m.p.h., churned over the field doing at least 50, landed and stopped in about...
...bumpers to guard the fenders; now the bumpers seem far too delicate to be bumped. Some, in fact, have so many knife-edges and knobs that they act more like can openers than bumpers. As for the friendly push in time of stress, drivers have to be careful that pusher and pushee match up bumper-wise. One solution (by Dodge): bumper guards to guard the bumpers-and the bumpee...