Sentence examples for shorty from inspiring English sources

THERE is no doubt that Joaquín "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzmán is an escape artist.

Significant milestones included my 80th birthday, the 40th anniversary of my decision to go on the run and the tenth anniversary of the arrest of my predecessor, Salvatore "Shorty" Riina.

Known as La Barbie for his supposed (and unconvincing) resemblance to a Ken doll, the Texas-born Mr Valdez cut his teeth as the chief enforcer for Joaquín El Chapo ("Shorty") Guzmán, whose Sinaloa "cartel" is the world's biggest drug-trafficking organisation.

How cocaine conquered the worldHE MAY be only little, but Joaquín "Shorty" Guzmán, who was captured in Mexico on February 22nd, is reckoned to have run a big criminal business.

Elmore Leonard, the author of such hugely successful crime novels as "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight", will publish his latest novella online despite the fact that, at 75, he still writes his fiction longhand and does not even own a computer.

It was also unequivocal that Israel should withdraw from the occupied territories as much for the sake of Israeli Jews as for their Arab neighbours.In this section Petals of blood A wasteful effort A man in full Get Shorty Divine inspiration Lovebirds and murder The book of kings ReprintsThe book made Mr Grossman, now 56, a contentious figure in Israel, and the controversy has not gone away.

He first became renowned as composer of the Woody Herman band hit "Four Brothers" (1947) and then played saxophones and clarinet with Shorty Rogers and other West Coast figures before leading his own daring recording dates.

Various octets, nonets, and other small ensembles soon followed suit, as did such West Coast-based quartets and quintets as those led by Mulligan, Chet Baker, Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, and Chico Hamilton.

Some critics place his music in the "cool jazz" category and, being based in California, many of his players including Shorty Rogers, Bill Perkins, and Shelly Manne were identified with West Coast jazz, a subcategory of cool jazz.

His later films included Get Shorty (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), The Royal Tennenbaums (2001), and Runaway Jury (2003).

Much recording activity and publicity surrounded a community of white jazz musicians, including Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck, Shorty Rogers, and others, who were based in California during the early and middle 1950s; thus the label West Coast jazz was applied despite the fact that most of its performers were not born there and some remained there only briefly.