Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that rack those heavy with child...
...less loathsome than when they came in. He added: "I love these women that others find loathsome. I understand them. I'm trained to." But his account of the analytic sessions nevertheless leaves readers with the feeling that he must often have longed for a good old medieval rack or a bundle of faggots...
...Elegant or Die." To André, who nursed Deauville through the Depression and rebuilt it from the rack of D-day and a G.I. rest center, "Deauville is the great lady whom I have always loved." A onetime croupier who rakes in $3,500,000 (and keeps about $150,000 after taxes) in a good season at Deauville, André blends the parsimony of his peasant ancestors with the persnikity ways of a protocol pundit. "Deauville," he insists, "must be elegant...
With a huge map of Europe on his right and a rack of charts, e.g., of
NATO air strength, on his left. Al Gruenther spoke without notes for 45
minutes, effortlessly rattling off the complex statistics of defense
expenditures, populations and strength estimates, persuasively arguing
that Soviet "smiles, happy talk and receptions" in no way justify a
dilution of Western strength. Items:
Mayor Peterson confirmed the charge. The Oregon Teamsters' representative, Clyde Crosby-whom the Oregonian revealed as an ex-convict-admitted that he had tried to get the mayor to fire Police Chief Jim Purcell, but only, he said, because the chief was in cahoots with Rack eteer Elkins. Cried District Attorney Langley, a Democrat elected in 1954 with strong Teamsters' support: "Reports that I have plotted with the Teamsters are a pack of lies." He charged that the tapes were doctored and spurious, accused Racketeer Elkins of trying to blackmail him with them...