Word: webbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Establishmentarian rottenness. The sleuth is doughty Detective-Inspector Henry Peckover, a passable published poet who can no more aspirate his aitches than preserve his skull from duggery. Relegated by Scotland Yard to a dead-end fraud investigation, he links the murder of a May fair tart to a web of political, financial and sexual hanky-panky that encompasses a titled M.P., a police chief superintendent who turns drag queen by night, Middlesex pols and proles, bird hunters of all varieties and an Arab sheik bent on making the green and pheasant land an adjunct of Riyadh. Molehill is the sixth...
...spread a web of terror...
...from Maine to California, in barn lofts, in museums and, most often, in schools. O'Callahan's base is as story-teller-in-residence for public schools in Quincy, Framingham and Brookline, Mass. Although next fall he will start a radio program called The Spider's Web, O'Callahan prefers live audiences. "People are hungry for storytelling because we live in an age preoccupied with technology and science...
Gulf is also enmeshed in a web of lawsuits growing out of allegations that it secretly participated in a worldwide cartel to manipulate supplies and raise the price of uranium. Though the cartel's impact on U.S. prices remains uncertain, the world price of uranium has gone from $6 a pound in 1972 to about $44 today. At worst, Gulf, which denies the charge, could be forced to pay $1 billion or more in damages to companies in the uranium business. McAfee predicts that, at most, the various court actions could cost Gulf no more than $360 million. Last week...
...lesbian girl of Khartoum A maiden there lived in a large market-town A scandal or two A tail behind, a trunk in front A tangled web indeed we weave