Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unknown, he shot to prominence as prosecutor (1950-53) in a probe of Montreal vice in the '40s, when gambling czars ran up a $100-million-a-year business and bawdyhouses never closed. He proved police collusion with such evidence as a row of doors nailed to a wall so that cops could "padlock" vice dens without offending the underworld; 20 cops were later fined or fired. Only four weeks after the probe ended, Prosecutor Drapeau was installed at city hall by the biggest vote ever given a mayoralty candidate...
...make a number of temporary shifts in what was a fairly well settled starting line-up. The middle of the line has been heaviest hit so Lamar has moved up his third and fourth guards and shifted a reserve tackle to plug up the gaps in his forward wall...
...hello. But even a few of these have paid the price of friendliness. Next-door neighbor Lewis Wechsler has been openly friendly since Myers moved in; since then a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home. A woman who lives half a block away paused one evening to chat with Myers, found on her lawn when she got home a stark sign: "Nigger lover...
...Arabic, might well be a blurred rendering of Gibeon. Last year Pritchard began to dig (his expedition was financed by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where he teaches Biblical Hebrew). Four feet below the surface at El-Jib Pritchard found the walls of houses, then evidence of a 26-ft.-thick wall surrounding the town, and finally the rim of a pool 37 ft. across...
EUROPE'S COMMON MARKET will speed moves by U.S. companies to open subsidiaries on Continent, thus get in under tariff wall. Heading in that direction, Pittsburgh's fast-growing Rockwell Manufacturing Co. (1956 sales: $115 million) will buy West Germany's Ilo Works, continue to make Ilo's diesel and gasoline engines there and also turn out the valves, pipeline meters and power tools that Rockwell makes...