Word: tracing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though police trace the mayhem back to the McLaughlin-McLean contretemps-a falling-out romantically attributed to a slur on one mug's moll-they theorize that other motives have since arisen. Many of the victims made their living as loan sharks. This is big, if disorganized, business in Boston's lower crust. The "vigorish," or profit, is estimated at $1,000,000 a week. With that kind of take, the competition for trade is bound to be keen. As might be expected, the surplus of bodies has been accompanied by a dearth of witnesses and evidence. Just...
Tricky Tool. "Why we are in Viet Nam," says Schlesinger, "is today a question of mainly historical interest. We are there, for better or for worse, and we must deal with the situation that exists." Fortunately, he goes on anyway to trace the history of that involvement, and that part of the book makes most compelling reading...
Speaking with a slight trace of his native Australia, Hayes explained why he had to give up swimming...
...well reach for a Gillette razor blade, Colgate toothpaste, and hair lotion that comes in a bottle made by an Owens-Illinois subsidiary. After he downs his Maxwell instant coffee with Libby condensed milk, his wife, trim in her Lycra stretch bra, kisses him goodbye, leaving only a trace of Revlon lipstick. In his Ford Taunus, or G.M. Opel, fueled with Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising...
...begin the easy match, first men Anil Nayar and Rick Sterne easily swept their opponents, 3-0. The only trace of a challenge came on numbers three through five where Harvard players each dropped a game...