Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instant he had finished, Southern leaders were on their feet. Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody offered the South's minority report defining the sovereignty of the states. Two other Southerners, Mississippi's Walter Sillers and Cecil Sims of Tennessee, followed with similar amendments. Cried Sillers: "Give us the right to govern our own fundamental affairs!" Then ex-Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, of Wisconsin, a onetime Socialist who helped manage Norman Thomas' campaign in 1932, a colleague of Humphrey on the platform committee, presented the Northern minority report on civil rights...
...witnesses at the second trial had been the governor of Ankara province, for whom Orbay had worked as private secretary. Day after his testimony the governor was found dead in his bed, shot through the temple by a gun found on a radiator twelve feet away. The official verdict was suicide...
...peddle them himself. Another is that someone will rob him, and that he must keep all his paints and possessions always locked up, carrying the keys around with him on a rope about his waist. With such worries, and 50 relatives, and a whole year - and thousands of square feet - of orders to fill, there was little peace last week for Ch'ih Pai-shih. Once in a while he likes to drive out into the country to a quiet place where there is an eight-foot stone on which are carved the words: "The grave...
...brow drops blood, His side is torn, His hands have nail prints, His feet are bruised, His heart is bleeding, and He throws his emaciated body across the gaping chasm between justice and mercy, and cries...
...pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return...