Word: crossruff
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Meanwhile, Patrick engineered a slick transatlantic crossruff. Starting with a girl who was unknown on either side of the ocean, Patrick billed Raquel to the European press as America's answer to Ursula Andress. European reporters lapped it up. Then Patrick shipped the publicity back to the U.S., where it was eagerly picked up by the American press. In 1966, Hammer Productions wished its friends a merry, merry Christmas by distributing 11-by-13 cards (3,000 of them) with Raquel's classic cave-suit pose on the front...
Tuxedos & Secrecy. The bankers twisted a few arms, carefully kept excitement out of their voices to ensure that foreign bankers got no chance impression of panic, and made occasional use of what is known in Washington as "the crossruff": the practice of getting someone to join a party by telling him someone else is coming in. The need for secrecy was so important that in the midst of negotiations, Roosa even donned a tuxedo in the office and went off to a scheduled piano recital at the Polish embassy lest anyone suspect by his absence what was afoot. He kept...
...intense ambition to become world's greatest saint. Spring ferment set up a crossruff resulting in terror, self-mortification, pneumonia. A kind Jewish doctor relieved him at once of his guilt...
Besides her honest, very neatly told, never uninteresting story, Mrs. Keith presents the psychological spectacle of a likable, genteel lady who may crossruff but never cancel her ladyhood. Seen through that lens, her portrait of Borneo is seriously limited...
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