Word: towing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skin of Our Teeth. This play is thought of quite highly in some circles--for instance, it won a Pulitzer Prize. I always thought it was a little trite, what with Thornton Wilder celebrating the Ability of Man to Endure Through the Ages (with his long-suffering wife in tow). Wilder follows one family, the Antrobuses (like the Greek work, anthropos, which means man--get it?), from the Stone Age to the present, as they weather a variety of trials and they weather a variety of trials and tribulations-marital infidelity, juvenile delinquency, the ice Age. Still, it's good...
...about 6,000 per month-are handed out to some 10,000 undercover vehicles belonging to the FBI, the CIA, Customs and other agencies. The cars are often registered to fictitious names and addresses, and police sometimes do not learn that a particular auto is federally owned until they tow it away. In one such instance, federal marshals showed up to claim some illegally parked cars and charged police in turn with illegal seizure of federal property. The cars were promptly returned...
Today he is after presents for his band and staff, mementos of Wembley. With a personal assistant and two anxious salesmen in tow, he begins inspecting gold necklaces. "Should the necklace go to Brenda?" he asks rhetorically. "No, the necklace goes to Connie; it's a purse for Brenda." Brenda Russell is a back-up singer; Connie Pappas is with Rocket...
With Edwards in tow, CIA General Counsel Lawrence Houston warned Assistant Attorney General Herbert J. Miller Jr. that the CIA'S connection with the Mafia faced exposure if the snoopers were prosecuted. A day or so later, Houston and Edwards met with then Attorney General Robert Kennedy. He was upset but apparently not unduly alarmed. There would be no prosecution. His parting words were: "If you people want to get involved again with Mafia types, I want you to consult me first." It was Houston's impression that Kennedy had not known of the operation until that afternoon...
...Orca, Quint's leaky craft, to bring the marauding great white to his reward. Ideal adversary that he is, the shark proves stronger and more wily than anyone suspected. The men go after him with rifles. They try to slow him down with barrels, fight him, tire him, tow him. In desperation Hooper descends below the surface in a shark cage (the sequence for which Carl Rizzo was hired), armed with a poison gun that will get the job done-if he can shoot it directly into the creature's mouth. The shark is not daunted...