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'Thought you might know who it was.' 'Not unless it's Mr Johnson. Dad said he was expecting him.' Mr Helm (the late Mr Helm; he died of a stroke the following March) was a somber man in his late fifties whose withdrawn manner veiled a nature keenly curious and watchful; he like to know what was going on. 'Which Johnson?' 'The insurance fellow.' Mr Hem grunted. 'Your dad must be laying in a stack of it. That car's been here I'd say three hours.'

уговорить кого-то не совершать самоубийство, прыгнув со здания? He isn't trained to talk people off ledges or muddle around in the dark corners of other people's minds.

'You shanty, Irishman, what do you know about cooking?

значение "лачуга" и "песня матросская" явно не подходят, а других я пока не нашла

When he got out (of prison) somebody put a whack on him.

By mentioning Bobby Kennedy and choosing words that would evoke slavery, Haggerty sought to appeal to a perceived Southern prejudice against Bobby Kennedy for his having put the Justice Department squarely behind integration and in support of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Get Hoffa Squad was counting on back-to-back justice that would land Jimmy Hoffa in jail.

One day I walked into the Horn and Hardart with string tied around both of my pant cuffs.

The next morning I got on Glimco, too, about his information. It was the same during the war. If a patrol went out and came back and said there was a squad of Germans up ahead, you better not get up there and run into a full regiment. Your ass is going to shit. I said to Joey, 'The next time you send me out to give a guy a message I better know how many you expect me to beat at one time.'