Word: bookmark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...batting glove as a bookmark...
...prosecutors, Paul claims, ignored evidence that might have swayed the jury: a clipping of a comic-strip version of an Old Testament episode that Little had used as a bookmark in her Bible, which was found after the killing. The clipping, which prosecutors insist they have never seen, showed an Israelite woman, Jael, luring an enemy into her tent, then driving a nail into his head while he slept. The fact that the prosecution did not use the strip, contended Paul, a persistent court critic, only bolstered his cynicism. Given an undistinguished prosecutor and a clever defense attorney with money...
...school because of the busing but in his yard was a large sky-blue bus he drove for Sunday School painted with "Have you read your Bible today?" and a big open Bible that was ready to fly away into the bus's side with the tail of its bookmark flapping behind...