Word: dazey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willie did. In a crowded little room stood the same portable electric chair. Willie smiled. He wiped his palms on his pants and sat down. He had nothing to say. He might have remembered the last time. (Last time, "everything begun to look dazey. ... It was like the white folks watching was in a big swing, and they'd swing away and back and then right up close.") In the silence the sheriff pulled the switch. This time Willie was carried away from the portable electric chair...
...They begun to strap me in the chair, and everything begun to look dazey . . . It was like the white folks watching was in a big swing, and they'd swing away and back and then right up close. When they put the black bag over my head, I was all locked up . . . with loud thinkin...