Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the other contestants spent the evening in police stations, Obermaier stayed in his hotel room, wrote the story as he imagined it. Two years later, after a tour of the U.S., he persuaded his editor to let him write a gossip column, culled his first effort from a stack of U.S. movie magazines he had brought back with...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) goes after hijacking, kidnaping, scene-snatching. Guest Star William Bendix...
...this point the suspense, already throat-constricting, becomes anginal. The explosion has trapped the heroine (Dorothy Malone) beneath a steel frame too heavy to move. Only an acetylene torch can save her. Can the hero (Robert Stack), raging through the sinking ship, find a torch before the rising waters drown the heroine's piteous cries? No he can't; yes he can; no he can't. The Stones play on the moviegoer's pulse as though it were a set of bongos...
...tarnished Casino of Monte Carlo one evening shuffled Sir Winston Churchill, a sometime gambler spending a quiet vacation (on doctors' orders) in Monaco. At Sir Winston's side was Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, owner of 42% of the Casino's stock. Churchill bought a modest stack of light blue ($1) chips. After two hours devoted to the impassive scrutiny of a spinning roulette wheel and the cards in another game called trente et quarante, the two departed. Churchill was an estimated $35 richer, Onassis $15 poorer. Two afternoons later Sir Winston was back, this time wagering...
Recoiling in horror, Lucius returned all but the second book and hurried to the welcoming stack door. Once inside, he steadied himself, reflecting that this was the harsh price of public expression. Anyway, it was clearly the work of a non-library...