Word: sordidly
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...TIME! Give me Farouk's life-and I shall take his death! Give me 30-room hotel suites, belly dancers and beauty queens; make me spend my nights gambling $100,000 away; make me know every call girl in Rome by name. And then, TIME, give me that sordid death-I shall give you my social security, my medicare, my rocking chair, and my clean, "well-spent" past, present and future...
There are easier ways to get from Portugal to France, but none more popular-or expensive. The truck is the next-to-last leg of a sordid underground railroad traveled every month by some 2,500 Portuguese peasants being smuggled into France to look for work. The price of a one-way ticket: between...
...they swap girls, drugs and stolen motorcycle parts with equal abandon. In between drug-induced stupors, the Angels go on motorcycle-stealing forays, even have a panel truck with a special ramp for loading the stolen machines. Afterward, they may ride off again to seek some new nadir in sordid behavior...
Regular Tours. The young King who took over as ruler of Egypt in 1936 seemed hardly destined for such a sordid end. At the death of his father, King Fuad, he had been recalled from Britain's Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Farouk was then a tall, handsome youth of 16 who took pride in his position as Egypt's Chief Boy Scout. After a two-year regency, Farouk got full power and pledged he would be "the first servant of my country...
...charged with committing "13 overt acts of espionage" for the Russians between 1957 and 1963, the folks in Bay Shore were predictably surprised. Just as predictably, Thompson denied all. But last week he changed his mind, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, and blabbered his sordid little spy story to the press...