Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A smudged and crooked line,
Down in the harsh bottom land of Crooked Creek, N.C., the sharecropping Negroes grub and grovel in feudal hardship, sustained only by a Bible-quoting parson and their own passive resistance to death, famine and flood - the blind resilience peculiar to those with no hope to abandon except that of...
The film suggests that the headlines were enough to make Rocky think seriously of making a deal with the crooked gamblers, only to be dissuaded by a pep talk from his neighborhood candy-store proprietor and by a fortuitous reconciliation with his father. Somebody ends with Rocky knocking out Zale...
But Leverone soon found that if vend ing-machine operators had been crooked, the customers were worse. In its first year Leverone's company took in $30,000 worth of slugs. Undaunted, Leverone and his engineers installed magnets to winnow out iron slugs, developed a three-fingered scanning device...
That was too much for Governor Smith. In the middle of the night he gave Attorney General Thornton sweeping powers to oust Langley immediately from control of the grand jury; the attorney general took it over next morning. At week's end, as the Oregonian and the Journal strained...