Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Griffin Bell announced William Webster's appointment to the FBI post, he noted proudly that it had been made "without regard to political party." One motivation for the remark: both he and President Carter had become embroiled in a controversy over their desire to sack a Republican, David Marston, as U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia...
Close Encounters of The Third Kind Written and directed by Steven Spielberg Sack Cinema...
...shows Falstaff as a weak old man lying about brave exploits, a man who fools himself while fooling no one else. Yet Redmond's Falstaff can also execute a devastating denial of courtesy in a sarcastic bow or, blessing the servants with holy water poured from a bottle of sack, a mean mockery of the church. As this Falstaff sighs and raises his eyes wearily to his eyebrows, he almost rises above himself when suddenly he turns and spits and hollers in full voice: "There's lime in this sack...
...magazine's photographers provided the images that alerted and moved a nation. Many of the pictures have been permanently filed in our imaginations: Robert Capa's famous "moment of death" of a Spanish Republican soldier; the dead Chinese child being carried to a mass grave like a sack of laundry; Mussolini flapping his arms like a prize rooster; MacArthur sloshing ashore in the Philippines; the pinups of the '40s-Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth and that trivia-test stumper, Chili Williams, "the Polka-Dot Girl." A perfect gift for the old Sarge...
...those little elves to make toys for him so he never has to go Christmas shopping. It's a good thing, because Ole Kris Kringle just wasn't made to squeeze into the revolving doors of department stores, and security guards are naturally suspicious of anybody carrying a big sack like his. And how many department stores would take a check drawn on the North Pole Savings and Trust? Cashing one from a New York bank is tough enough...