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[US] W. Barrett Trump 45: [H]e [i.e. Fred Trump] moved into Sutherland turf with a bang. [...] [H]e announced a number of large-scale one- and two-family developments.
at with a bang (adv.) under bang, n.1
[US] W. Barrett Trump 144: Despite the apparent boondoggle air of the escrow plan, [Deputy Mayor Stanley] Friedman stormed ahead with it.
at boondoggle, n.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 225: Degnan summoned DGE director Mickey Brown, the bulldog prosecutor who had tried the Resorts case.
at bulldog, adj.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 284: [T]he patriarch arranged and attended meetings that produced [. . .] a handshake deal on a sale of the building to the tenants.
at handshake deal, n.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 77: [Trump] ‘wouldn’t practice hard,’ dogging it on the coach’s mandatory five-mile runs.
at dog it, v.1
[US] W. Barrett Trump 110: Trump would not highball them, she declared, into a compromise that left them with a 10,000-unit.
at highball, v.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 322: [used negatively] Barwick [...[ hired an architectural historian, who discovered what Barwick called ‘the hook’ that helped them block the project.
at hook, n.1
[US] W. Barrett Trump 68: Donald [Trump] would try to hustle the young waitresses.
at hustle, v.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 298: Trump’s name hovered over Macri’s rezoning efforts, with half the West Side insisting that Macri was a mere ‘stand-in’ for Trump.
at stand-in, n.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 379: Trump was looking for an inside track. When Frucher didn’t offer it, Trump didn’t bid.
at inside track (n.) under inside, adj.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 291: [L]one wolf Rozenholc wanted to run his own one-man show.
at lone wolf, n.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 127: When [Trump] did make a move and pick up a phone number, his selections seemed [...] to be triggered by the impact the woman might make on a room, never his ease with her.
at make a move (on) (v.) under move, n.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 225: [H]e simply wanted assurances he could parlay [...] his Mr. Clean assets into an instant license, without too many questions.
at Mr Clean (n.) under Mr, n.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 139: Of course the old gang came [to the wedding] too, including Bunny, and a collection of Steinguts.
at old gang (n.) under old, adj.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 68: [Fred Trump] took what the commission called a $600,000 ‘windfall’ [...] When Silverman testified about this padding [...] the commission was stunned.
at pad (a bill) (v.) under pad, v.2
[US] W. Barrett Trump 118: Bailkin was both annoyed and amused, as so many were and would be, by the shameless shilling of the kid.
at shilling (n.) under shill, v.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 110: The community stonewall, and the drying up of subsidies, forced Trump back to the drawing board.
at stonewall, v.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 327: Donald’s strategy was to act as if he were NBC’s exclusive agent [...] so he could afford to offer the network a sweetheart deal.
at sweetheart contract (n.) under sweetheart, adj.
[US] W. Barrett Trump 41: Bunny functioned primarily as a public relations man for the politically wired Consolidated [ibid.] 111: A petite, forty-five-year-old brunette wired into West Side and national Democratic politics.
at wired (in) (adj.) under wired, adj.1
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