Word: defter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a cunning apple pie face, Tatum seems typecast as Addie Pray, a preternaturally shrewd waif who hooks up with a conartist, played by her father, Ryan O'Neal. Soon she proves a defter swindler than O'Neal. She also seems more worldly, smoking, cussing and plotting dirty tricks. A pair of rag tag charmers, they sometimes earn their keep hawking Bibles to new widows...
Leawood has three Protestant churches (Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian), one Roman Catholic church and no synagogues. Perhaps 3% of the population are Jewish. There are few black families. Once deeds in Leawood forbade resale to Negroes, Jews-or Arabs. Now Leawood gets nearly the same results by defter means: a local ordinance bars For Sale signs on houses, and Leawood brokers can easily avoid showing to someone they consider undesirable. Tom Leathers remembers that a couple of years ago, Bobby Bell, the Kansas City Chiefs' great linebacker, wanted to buy in Leawood. Bell is black. Leathers telephoned a member...