Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Remotely Possible." Shaggy-looking, Oxford-educated Witness Wadleigh admitted that he had been a Communist "collaborator," that he had carried off State Department documents for Chambers and another underground courier named David Carpenter. He had delivered about 400 of them. But he swore that none of the Government's...
New York reacted to history's worst water crisis much as it had reacted to the news that German planes might blow it up: nobody really believed it, but everybody did his best to see that somebody else did something about it. Even Communist officials urged their members to...
Undeterred by the fact that industry-particularly breweries, laundries and power plants-gulped up almost half the city's water and that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had...
It had been 22 years since he burst into the city hall to punch the mayor of Newburyport flush on the mouth (60 days, said the judge). It had been 18 years since he talked about a formal bout of fisticuffs in Boston Garden to settle a grudge. The days...
All Is Calm. Homer got 6,000 electric bulbs, seven new electric cables, and a public-address system and installed them on the lawn in front of his house, which is about the biggest of all the big houses on Swiss Avenue. He built three papier-máché...