Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swinging his crippled arm, the triumphant anti-Communist leader, Walter Reuther, hooted at him: "All I can say, Harry, is that your halo is on crooked today."
Crooked Canyon. According to the Smith hypothesis, the South could not find peace; its guilt drove it to a collective persecution complex. "Beyond the mountains was the North: the Land of Dam-yankees, where live People Who Cause All of Our Trouble; and at the end of the North was...
Someone in the British embassy noticed by the ads in Evening Moscow that the film Posledny Round (The Last Round) was playing in 21 movie houses at once. It turned out to be the story of a crooked U.S. gambler and an honest prizefighter.
Peering benevolently over the tops of his reading glasses, Georgia's canny Representative Carl Vinson clapped down his gavel and brought the proceedings to order. His Armed Services Committee had met to consider grave charges: that the Air Forces' controversial B-36 bomber, the nation's prime...
Casey Stengel was floating on a fleecy cloud. In his managerial cubbyhole at Yankee Stadium, Casey reclined dreamily upon a sofa, his short, crooked legs crossed, his gnarled hands clasped behind his head. "Best ball club I ever had," he kept repeating softly, as though he liked the sound of...