Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legal Action. In Los Angeles, police and sheriff's deputies simultaneously got a hot tip on a fugitive's whereabouts, sneaked up on the spot, gamely shot it out with one another. Result: 1) the fugitive escaped, 2) a deputy's backside was pinked...
...Soviet Union's precarious fight for survival down to the latter days of its expansive glory, the "little father of the peasants" had dispensed friendly fatherliness and earthy philosophy. Now, with his eyesight almost gone, he was happy to quit. The shriveled sage with the oldfashioned, tip-tufted beard had the distinction of being one of the few top-ranking Old Bolsheviks to be removed from office merely...
Schwieger marked every page of everyone's music, noted the fingering and position for the stringed instruments, marked the upbows and downbows, indicated whether he wanted a phrase played at the tip of the bow or at the lower part. He marked every crescendo and diminuendo for the brasses. Then he sent his musicians home to practice their individual parts. Later each section of the orchestra rehearsed together, while Schwieger went from one room to another, coaching first the violins, then the woodwinds. Pay didn't start until the orchestra came together for full rehearsal...
...quickly filed applications for places with the "Company of Adventurers" that since 1670 has been "trading into Hudson's Bay." Accepted applicants will follow the sort of life already begun for young Tinling, who is destined for a post on Baffin Island, possibly Arctic Bay at the northern tip...
...general, there was no reason for U.S. industry to tip its hat to Germany. But in a few things, the Nazis had an edge. With synthetic rubber, for example, the Germans had slightly better methods of producing medical and surgical rubber goods. They had little to teach Detroit's motormakers. But they had new tricks to melt metals in vacuums and new electro-medical gadgets. As to how or when the Nazi processes and patents will be available to U.S. industry, the Federal Government has not yet made up its mind...