Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wholesale theft on the New York piers, and his own grandly feudal way of handling union funds. But the New York Crime Commission's shocking expose of waterfront rackets hit Joe Ryan where it hurt: according to testimony at the hearing, he had dipped into the union till to buy himself Cadillacs, pay golf-club dues, cruise to Guatemala, pay insurance premiums and family funeral expenses. This week Joe Ryan was arrested on a grand-larceny indictment in which he is charged with stealing $11,390 in I.L.A. funds. Joe pleaded not guilty and said, with displeasure...
...killing my flock, you are ruining their fields . . . Come and talk to me." After several hours waiting in the sun, when Giuliano still did not come, the cardinal gathered his vestments about him and cried aloud: "Giuliano. I am your archbishop, and I forbid you to kill!" Not till then did he walk home alone through the darkness to Palermo...
...mythmaker: "My grandfather had a white beard and used to wear rubber shoes. One day he leapt from the roof of our house, but when his feet touched the ground he bounced like a ball and bounced up higher than the house, and went higher and higher still till he disappeared in the clouds. That is how my grandfather died...
...Death. Unnerved by the noise, he left without taking any money, but at an all-night restaurant in Spring Valley, Minn., he was more efficient. He shot a waitress, Mrs. Harriet Horsman, 48, and scooped $49 from the till. The cafe owner's wife made the mistake of screaming too. Fred killed her. Then the young couple drove on to Minneapolis to get married. They naively gave the license clerk their correct ages, and were turned down. "But," said Diane primly, "as far as we are concerned, we are legally married...
...make another picture that suits my standards . . . When, how and where, I don't know ... I'm taking my time now . . . When l Iook at Cecil B. DeMilIe (71), I realize you shouldn't even start to think of yourself as on top of your game till you're his age. I expect to be in pictures a long time...