Word: till
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more out of Tony Perkins than there is in him. This resolutely cute young man, the sweater-boy wonder of the fan-mag industry, is surely an improbable archetype of the Anxious Age; but in scene after scene Welles rolls him up like an empty toothpaste tube and squeezes till the right expression pops out of his face...
...head man of the Teamsters union. Jimmy Hoffa is an absolute but generous ruler, firm in the conviction that there is money enough in the Teamster till for every loyal lieutenant. Last week Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 45, burly Hoffa protégé and chief of Union City, N.J., local 560, reached in for an even larger share than the boss takes...
...parvenu playing a game that calls for expertise, Publisher Morrison made many costly mistakes. The Journal's vaunted liberalism was never more than timid; its qualifications as a newspaper were never better than just fair. Toward the end, the paper was losing $90,000 a month, and the till was so bare that Morrison borrowed money from his own loyal staffers-many of whom have not been paid since mid-December...
...dart about the house and through the fields like a pair of amorous butterflies. But the next day, when she takes off for town to buy some groceries, he stops her by main force. And a little while later, when the postman rings, he hides in the bedroom till the fellow goes away. "To avoid gossip," he explains a little too anxiously, and she accepts his explanation. But about the same time she discovers that her loaded gun is missing, and that night she sees on his arm a peculiar scar that could belong only to one man: the quisling...
...gambling casino; abandoned without a Mr. Goodbar to her name, without so much as a nickel for a Nab in her pretty little purple plastic pocketbook; abandoned in a lobby without a Coke machine, without a drinking fountain, without even a television set-and only seven minutes left till Huckleberry Hound...