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  • 1Cement overcoat — The term cement overcoat refers to the legendary practice of some mobsters of encasing a body of a victim of organized crime in cement, which makes it more likely that said body will stay at the bottom of a river, bay, or other body of water.In… …

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  • 2Cement shoes — For the independent record label, see Cement Shoes Records. Cement shoes is a slang term adopted by the American Mafia crime world for a method of execution that involves weighting down a victim and throwing him or her into the water to drown. It …

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  • 3Dick Tracy (1990 film) — Dick Tracy Theatrical release poster Directed by Warren Beatty Produced by Warren Beatty …

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  • 4Carlo Gambino — Infobox Person name=Carlo Gambino caption=Carlo Gambino s picture taken in the 1930s birth date=birth date|1902|8|24|mf=y birth place=Caccamo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy death date=death date and age|1976|10|15|1902|8|24|mf=y death place=Massapequa,… …

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  • 5Northern Counties Committee — The Northern Counties Committee (NCC) was a railway that served the north east of Ireland. It was built to Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) but later acquired a number of 914 mm (3 ft)  narrow gauge… …

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  • 6concrete shoes —    (in)    murdered and hidden    A more accurate description of cement shoes, and also as concrete boots or overcoat:     ... it s tough to play golf in concrete shoes. Comprendel (M. Thomas, 1980)     Aiden... has a three day plan; repay two… …

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  • 7Polystyrene — For other uses, see Polystyrene (disambiguation). Expanded polystyrene packaging …

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  • 8Yemen — /yem euhn, yay meuhn/, n. 1. Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People s Democratic Republic of Yemen. 13,972,477; 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Cap.: (political) San a. Cap.:… …

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  • 9A Lesson Before Dying — is Ernest J. Gaines eighth novel, published in 1993. Author and his timesErnest J. Gaines was born in 1933, during the height of the Great Depression. His father was a sharecropper on the River Lake Plantation in Oscar, Louisiana which meant that …

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  • 10Me Against the Music — Single by Britney Spears featuring Madonna …

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