Word: asks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, including trees, and I am indebted to Mr. Murrow. I live alone; I was not surrounded by friends and family; there was just myself tiptoeing downstairs and hoping to God that things would go right. I hadn't the faintest idea what questions Mr. Murrow would ask...
...probe established that the federal kidnaping law had not been violated. Determined to defer no more to Mississippi's judicial machinery, the U.S. fell back on the only remaining federal weapon, two seldom used sections (241 and 242) of Title 18, U.S. Code, indicated that it would ask a federal grand jury in Biloxi for indictments charging the mob with violation of Parker's civil rights and conspiracy to deny his legal rights. The Greenville Delta Democrat-Times called Mississippi-born Judge Dale's bluff better than the fulminating Northern papers: "Nothing could have occurred that would...
...financial problems of small varsity sports, has been the subject of heated controversy since last year, when a slash of $100,000 from the athletic budget left six teams penniless. Lacrosse team coach Bruce Munro complained yesterday of his team's plight, claiming that he had been forced to ask friends at Dartmouth and Princeton to board his teams free of charge...
...thus seems strange that Holbrook finds it necessary to summarize or abbreviate some of Twain's best tales, for example the episode of Huck Finn and the runaway slave Jim on a Mississippi raft. Some local men, searching for escaped slaves, ask Huck if his companion is "white or black." Huck invokes the old tall-tale weapon, and convinces the men that his companion is his smallpox-afflicted "pop." The tale takes on fantastic proportions, but the authorities take in every word and even give Huck two $20 gold pieces before fleeing the pestilence...
...wife of a House Master, Mrs. Owen has become knowledgable with the concerns of the House. She knows about the problems of the Comstock-Winthrop merger, can tell you what Winthrop boys play on what teams, and has though up some answers to give Sophomores who ask about Sophomore slump...