Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hayes' story has a journalistic sort of clarity generally found on the screen only in the best documentaries. A trio of escaped convicts looking for a place to hide find the perfect setup in the middle-class home of a department store executive. In order to arouse no suspicions among the neighbors and the police, the criminals force the executive and his family to live as though nothing had happened. The Kafka-like mixture of horror and routine that results gives the picture most of its emotional impact...
...Bullet Bob" Turley, Casey's best righthander, can be as wild as an ensign with a .45; he has a tendency to aim the ball when he gets behind a batter, and may be a setup for Dodger power...
...rhymes with "on green"), a fad which keeps reappearing through history, combines the suspense of the $64,000 question with the finances of the pyramid club. In Costain's tontine, begun in England just after the Battle of Waterloo, people in each of eight age groups enter the setup at 100 guineas a head. The money and interest are invested for 20 years; the interest is split annually among the survivors. As others die, those left behind gleefully rake in more dough until one person takes...
...took Stapp a few months of spectacular scrounging and "moonlight requisitioning" to put together the kind of test setup he required. The lab needed water, so he "borrowed" 4,400 ft. of pipe, talked some civilian workers into doing the necessary welding, and paid them off with free medical care for their families. (Throughout his four busy years at Edwards, Stapp found time to give medical care to servicemen's families and civilian workers, often made more than half a dozen night calls, never accepted a cent from what he called "my curbstone clinic...
...services at one-fifth of cost. The other four-fifths will be paid by the clinic welfare fund. Workers' families, though not entitled to the free physical, will be eligible for the 80% discount on diagnoses. Because some charges will always be levied, doctors are satisfied that the setup will not be abused. Like the company and the union, they believe that in the long run it will save doctors' bills, discourage malingering and actually prevent sickness...