Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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French finished with seven tallies, tying a tournament record, added four assists and did everything but walk on water. While Maryland's All-American defenseman Mike Farrell was occupied with the galloping McEneaney--who is one part leprechaun, one part thug and one part colt--French befuddled the rest of the Terrapins. His first goal combined strength, speed and finesse. French drove into his defender, spun away to the outside and played "Now you see it, now you don't" with goalie Jake Reed. The Canadian was just as smooth in his passing; Cornell got its tying goal in regulation...
Philadelphia police rapidly identified three suspects-two were known toughs who preyed on homosexuals. By week's end one of the men had been found shot to death, and another had given himself up. The third remained on the loose: Salvatore Soli, 37, a mustachioed, tattooed thug described by detectives as a drug pusher, car thief, armed robber and gay hustler...
...trust in God as I should," he wrote when Churchill took over the War Ministry himself rather than offering it to him. Increasingly frustrated by his view from the sidelines, Reith worked out his rage toward Churchill in a string of scribbled epithets ("cur," "coward," "loathsome cad," "blasted thug") and capped it with a curse: "To hell and torture with Churchill and all the lousy swine of politicians and civil servants...
...Easy Rider were made again now from the shreds of what remains, maybe Hopper's thug-hostility and the Fonda's empty anti-social posing would be left out. Maybe they wouldn't be cocaine dealers with no idea of what they were looking for. Now maybe going out on the road would be a kind of dream, with friends along the way and a home waiting at the end of the line. Maybe "Born To Be Wild" would be a less defiant but equally idealistic "Blue Skies;" maybe "If Six Were Nine" would be "Ramblin' Man"; and maybe "Long...
...Sampson is a thug and killer, pure and simple." British authorities believe that he was responsible for 26 killings in his fight against British rule, but he was never convicted of murder...