Word: squealer
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...quality of Miller's first plays, the almost prehistoric, concentrated expression of aggression and pity, has been somewhat vitiated in his more recent attempts to write plays that are socially useful. Here, Skolnik has mounted an ambitious production that tries to present considerably more than an indictment of the squealer, and the society that pressures, then closes in upon, him. The moral "message" has been obfuscated in the process, but it was blurred before Skolnik set his sights...
...binding on judges, who sometimes hit the prisoner with a tougher rap than the D.A. promised. In cases like Gebhardt's, however, the D.A. may be so strapped for evidence that his only chance of conviction is to get one criminal to testify against his accomplice. The squealer's price may be complete immunity from prosecution...
...smell of it." Even Caroline Kennedy's White House kindergarten teacher was there. The Valachi hearings were plainly the place to go in Washington last week. But they were still a pretty shabby show, with Hoodlum Joseph Valachi, 60, being fawned over merely because he had turned squealer...
Dreamboat Squealer Elvis Presley, 22, got a 60-day draft deferment in order to complete a movie (TIME, Dec. 30), prepared for his farewell to soft civilian life by donating a trunkful of his cuddly stuffed Teddy bears, plus two black and white toy pandas and a fake koala, to the March of Dimes for auctioning later this month...
Within a few hours the neighbors knew who Bill Nelson really was. He was none other than Willie ("The Squealer") Bioff, frog-faced labor racketeer and longtime associate of the old Chicago Syndicate...