Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, returning to Washington from a Bahamian cruise, read reports and declared: "The Coast Guard gave the craft warning. It was endeavoring to escape and the Coast Guard could not do less than it did. . . . If the Coast Guard couldn't shoot, they couldn't carry out their instructions...
...fight Regan, again drunk, went to Coke's dressing room and told him who his wife's lover was. Coke went out to meet defeat with nothing but despair in his heart. For eight rounds he went hammer & tongs, batted O'Keefe all around the ring, couldn't knock him out. In the ninth round he knew it was all over. ". . . Something reached out of the darkness and belted him on the jaw. He felt the canvas again, but under his back this time; he heard the dim roar but it was receding...