Word: betwixt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unbelievable that there exists in your country a Siberia of Southern states where people are denied the right to vote. There does not seem to be much difference betwixt you Americans and the Russians...
...more so because these aspects of his character remained unchanged throughout his long life. But in a sense U.S. readers will recognize the type better than the British ever did-the second-generation citizen who despises the emigrants of other nations, the zealot of a minority religion, the betwixt-and-between man who is both of and not of his adopted country...
...handful of well-made malt and rub it between your hands in a fair dish of water to make them as clean as you may . . ." Says Walton: "Get a handful of well-made malt, and put it into a dish of water, and then wash and rub it betwixt your hands till you make it clean...
...adopted." I should also like to challenge another statement which deprecates the sex act in marriage as a "sacrament of unity" by quoting the authority of the Book of Common Prayer, which says marriage ". . . is an honourable estate, instituted of God, signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and His Church . . ." (THE REV.) LOUIS L. PERKINS St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Burns...
...stealthily in the pocket, only to reappear invariably when something else is sought. Craftier folk will attempt to stuff it into telephones, slot machines, parking meters, and the like, without notable success. At last, the aggravated token holder will trudge through the turnstiles once again, step from the platform, betwixt the sliding doors to disappear forever in the oblivion of a one-way trip to Jamaica Plain...