Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone. For his part, Michigan Republican George Romney, his voice weakened by a cold, joked bitterly about the Democrats and Cuba: "First they wanted Joe Kennedy to go down there and buy it. If that didn't work, they planned to send Billie Sol Estes down there to steal it. And if that didn't work, they'd have sent Harry Truman down there to tell 'em where...
...pervasive that they soon cease to shock, will at first sympathize with him. But Author Gover is gleefully staging the classic confrontation between educated fool and ignorant sage. Even in broken English, Kitten soon turns out to be a lot smarter and pleasanter than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force per se." Kitten, however, knows this liberty cabbage for the sauerkraut it is: "Extorshun . . . jes like...
...photography is beautifully composed, always evocative of mood and moment (a crescent boat on a lonely, twilit river seems to whisper the young husband's hope of escape for himself and his wife). But it is Sharmila Tagore's remarkable eyes that steal the scene and fill the screen whenever she is in view: their match can be found only in peacocks' plumes...
...Notes. As long ago as the '30s, Negro musicians resented the "theft'' of swing by white combos. According to Pianist Mary Lou Williams, the Bop era of the '40s began when Thelonious Monk decided: "We're going to create something they can't steal, because they can't play it." But the real problems of Crow Jim emerged in the '505 with the big-money success of West Coast jazz under the leadership of Brubeck, Mulligan, Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne-all of them white. The new jazz put more emphasis...
...nasty drizzle beat down on muddy Alumni Field here, both sides struggled to control the ball in the ankle-deep mire. Cornell moved to the offensive and barely missed scoring several times in the first quarter. Crimson fullback Lou Williams repeatedly showed up in the nick of time to steal the ball and clear...