Word: sapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...duped collectors are usually so sore in their pride that they say nothing or try to recoup quietly. Others, who have unwittingly donated forgeries to museums for big tax write-offs, discover that discretion is the better part of value. Not A. H. Meadows. After publicly calling himself "Mr. Sap," he pressed charges. Investigations led to the discovery of one of the most successful art swindles in modern history...
...Sap v. Roots. Unlike many socialists, Silone cares less for the transitory causes and effects of history than for the preservation of the human values that he believes are part of "our paleo-Christian heritage." In essence, he says, "this consists of the permanent validity of certain moral values designed to rescue mankind's communal living from the laws of the jungle." Though the statement slides over the instinctual courtesies that wild animals extend to one another, Silone clearly believes that man is the animal fated to strive for perfection. Perfection is objectified in ideals, and to Silone...
Emergency Exit, a collection of autobiographical essays that was first published in Italy in 1965, deals basically with Silone's belief in the enduring relevance of these values. In this regard, it is a work of optimism that avoids the sap of positive thinking and goes directly to its roots. As the essays reveal, these roots are inextricably bound up with Silone's own-with his youth among the landless peasants of the Abruzzi mountains, with his early religious training, with the earthquake that left him an orphan at 14, and with the Fascists, who killed his sole...
...criminals as a kind of blood sport. His boss sends him to Manhattan to extradite a prisoner named Ringerman (Don Stroud), who is in Bellevue recovering from an acid trip. He cons the doctors into releasing him, but Ringerman's girl Linny (Tisha Sterling) and a pal named Pushie sap Coogan as he is about to step on the plane for Arizona, stealing his gun and his prisoner. Coogan then sets out to run Ringerman to ground in an attempt to salvage his personal and professional honor...
...Sanh during the height of the siege to evacuate two wounded newsmen. Even in ordinary operations, CAS pilots, most of whom are ex-military aviators, more than earn their average tax-free pay of $2,000 a month. Often their "airstrips" are barely that-for example, at Nui Sap the strip is a 60-ft.-wide dike top that stretches for 960 ft. between two paddyfields. There are V.C. potshotters on the ground, swarms of U.S. fighters, transports, helicopters and spotter planes in the air. "Our major hazard," complains Chief Pilot Ed Dearborn, "is overcrowded airways, not the enemy...