Word: mailman
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...small, bristling man with a florid mustache and snowy, brushed-back eyebrows, Glimp guarded his privacy so laxly that more than enough is known of his stormy and unconventional personal life. He always denied the rumor circulating in his hometown, Pascagoula, Miss., that he shot his mother and the mailman before departing for foreign shores. He married the same woman, nude composer Lola Plitskaza, five times and divorced her twice. Their only child, Enrico, an embalmer of some promise, died tragically on the Lusitania, though not the voyage on which it sank...
...presidency in 1987, solidly suburban Senator Joseph Biden appropriated scenes from the coal-mining boyhood of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. To make a point about welfare dependency, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said his sister was once so dependent on handouts she would get "mad when the mailman [was] late with her check." In fact, she worked most of her life...
...beginning was the letter carrier. When the brand-new Florida Marlins held their first open tryout six years ago, a stout 36-year-old mailman named Joe Ciccarone showed up in a Cubs cap and a softball jersey to audition at shortstop. At the time, Ciccarone told Gordon Edes of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, "When the Marlins win the World Series for the first time in the year 2011, I'll be able to tell my kids I was at their first tryout...
...Boss, Richard J. Daley, and the funeral home where he was laid out. But Bridgeport is also the sort of community where a Mexican grocer can find his tires slashed, where a Chinese housewife can discover that someone has set her garbage cans on fire, and where a black mailman who had the temerity to walk into a bar on a June afternoon in 1993 to ask for a drink of water was beaten by two white men with a pool...
...which a kid's Christmas morning will be miserable. In this case the problem is exacerbated by the absence of Turbo Man, a perfectly awful action figure, from available shelves and by Langston's rivalry for the elusive doll with one Myron Larabee (the comedian Sinbad), a bomb-toting mailman who has gone permanently postal. Director Brian Levant envisions their holiday world in cheerily surreal terms, and Arnold's other obstacles include an unaccountably savage reindeer, an army of corrupt Santa Clauses and a motorcycle cop who is a sort of uniformed Wile E. Coyote...