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Will 76: In 1958 Gary [...] was a city that "worked." Every ethnic group had a piece of the action, public officials made a fortune from graft, and organized crime flourished on prostitution and gambling.at action, n.
Will 76: In 1958 Gary [...] was a city that "worked." Every ethnic group had a piece of the action, public officials made a fortune from graft, and organized crime flourished on prostitution and gambling. Will 204: Hunt and I arranged to meet him in Florida where we’d ‘Mutt and Jeff’ him (the old good cop, bad cop routine).at mutt and jeff, v.
Will 157: [T]here was some question about whether he [Daniel Ellsberg] had given the material [the ‘Pentagon Papers’] to The New York Times, or whether the Times, learning he had it [...] had bag-jobbed Ellsberg, who then acquiesced.at bag job (n.) under bag, n.1
Will (con. 1973) 319: My next move was obvious: get hold of the official report. I'd have to bag the records office.at bag, v.
Will 201: [W]e went to work quickly on a new plan calling for the expenditure of no more than $500,000. We cut the big-ticket items first.at big-ticket, adj.
Will 77: In security cases the ‘black bag job’—so called after the valise in which entry tools had been carried in the early days of the program, during the Roosevelt administration—could range over a wide variety of cases.at black bag (n.) under black, adj.
Will 150: [H]e made it clear that he had on his staff at least one black-bag man—that is, a surreptitious entry specialist.at black bag (n.) under black, adj.
Will 75: I glanced up and stared at something that was, to me, remarkable: an outdoor advertising sign in which the persons shown happily boosting the product were black.at boost, v.1
Will 289: For the going rate of cartons (‘boxes’) of Kool cigarettes [...] one could [...] have tailored clothing or anything else.at box, n.1
Will 126: I buzzed the main streets of both cities [...] I couldn't resist climbing out, then rolling into a screaming, redline dive directly down at the windows of Ham Fish’s campaign headquarters.at buzz, v.1
Will 185: Magruder was known to be a chairwarmer for John Mitchell, and there were a number of people over whom he did not have control.at chair-warmer (n.) under chair, n.
Will 168: [T]here was no file on Ellsberg. We were quite disappointed, but at least the operation [i.e. a break-in] had been ‘clean’: in and out without detection.at clean, adj.
Will 182: I told Dean I wasn’t sure that it’d be wise for me to ‘go into a closet,’ [...] If I disappeared all of a sudden, people would ask questions.at in the closet under closet, n.
Will 112: With a groan the pooch rolled over, staggered to its feet, then lurched out of the room. It was on a contact high!at contact high, n.
Will 172: The taking of material from the vault would be discovered and the fire engine traced to a cut-out buyer.at cut-out, n.2
Will 290: The shower area came first, then the individual cages. These were the ‘deadlock’ cells; one stayed in them twenty-four hours a day.at deadlock, n.
Will 170: I wasn't discouraged by the failure of the Fielding job to produce results—in that line of work there are as many dry holes as there are in the oil business.at dry hole (n.) under dry, adj.1
Will 260: ‘Gordon, a one-eighty on a thing like leaving the country in forty-five minutes doesn't exactly inspire confidence’.at one-eighty, n.
Will 53: I wrote off the testing fee and filed the report.at file, v.2
Will 161: [T]he CIA had provided him with physical disguise and flash alias documentation in connection with one of his missions.at flash, adj.
Will (con. 1973) 328: [A] college professor, who had taken a flyer on a marijuana venture, was released on bond .at take a flier (v.) under flyer, n.2
Will 289: For the going rate of cartons (‘boxes’) of Kool cigarettes [...] one could [...] have tailored clothing or anything else; drugs; a ‘fuck boy’ or ‘punk’ for homosexual gratification [etc].at fuck boy (n.) under fuck, n.
Will 285: As he led me to the small elevator that led to the underground detention center, Peter called after me, ‘Hang in there, man!’.at hang in there under hang in, v.
Will 304: A big black man walked up to me, smiling, and said, ‘You all right, Liddy. Now we know your heart don't pump no Kool-Aid’.at one’s heart doesn’t pump Kool-Aid under heart, n.
Will 129: Only when I'd moved in did I notice all the hooker traffic and furtive meetings in hallways.at hooker, n.3
Will 108: Concerning [Timothy] Leary [...] they wanted him the hell out of the county. Fast. [Sheriff] Quinlan handed the hot potato to his chief deputy, Charlie Borchers.at hot potato, n.1
Will 114: As if in fear that Leary would Houdini out of his pants again at the first opportunity, the district attorney ordered me to interview him immediately.at Houdini, v.
Will (con. 1973) 325: I started working out with the other clerk, a good friend who hated weight-lifting as much as I loved it. He paid a black man who had operated a health club in civilian life to drag him out of bed to the ‘iron pile’.at iron pile (n.) under iron, adj.
Will 172: There would be a lot of who-struck-John in the liberal press, but because nothing could be proved the matter would lapse into the unsolved-mystery category [ibid.] 313: They weren't going to interrogate me without my being under oath, and it saved all the formal who-struck-John of going through the Fifth Amendment after every question.at who-struck-John, n.
Will 190: Our two priorities were a ‘keyman’ or expert locksmith and a ‘wireman’ or electronics expert.at keyman (n.) under key, n.1
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