Word: fells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Altar. Last fortnight Sanchez hid himself in the church which houses the Virgin's shrine. Trembling in the darkness, he waited until midnight, then began to climb the altar. Several candelabra, he testified, fell near him "without anybody having touched them...
...Reformer. From boyhood Frank Murphy had had a kind of desperate intentness. He carried with him the Bible given him by his mother and read a chapter from it every day. He played football at the University of Michigan until a 220-Ib. center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
...heat in tiny, suffocating Chamber 13 of the Palais de Justice matted the 46-year-old defendant's white mane, wreathed his wrinkled face in perspiration. Four years after the war, the narrative of Nazi evil retold in the courtroom roused no passion, fell back into forgetfulness. During his deft defense, Abetz mechanically professed Nazi theory, just as mechanically pleaded that he had always tried to mitigate Nazi practice. The sentence: 20 years at hard labor...
...More than a dozen NKVD men suddenly rushed into the room and forcibly dragged me from my bed and out of the ward . . . My slow movement down the stairs on my crutches irritated them, and they gave me a push so that I fell down. This was repeated on each flight of stairs...
Hard Work. In Denver, police reached the scene of the crime in time to arrest Warren McWilliams, who had worked so long and so hard trying to crack a safe that he finally fell asleep...