Word: forks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambrose Metcalfe was a "candidate" (meaning, for the graveyard) almost as soon as he pinned on a policeman's badge in 1946. It took him just two years and eight months to get there. Last week, when his kinfolk took his bullet-riddled body up the dusty Poor Fork road and buried it in a little family cemetery, many a hillman thought Ambrose had actually outlived his life expectancy...
...trouble. The war had cut off the annual Moslem pilgrimages to Mecca, a prime source of his revenue. Ibn Saud needed cash, and he thought the quickest way to get it was to ask Arabian American Oil Co., which held the rich Saudi Arabian oil concession, to fork over an extra $6,000,000 a year. Aramco balked. But in far-off New York was a man who thought he could fix things...
...have learned subtler arts and more refined tortures than the knife and pincers. Nobody can prove that Mindszenty was drugged or beaten. All that can be said with certainty is that Mindszenty's whole life proved he was a brave and stubborn man, a man who at every fork in his life proudly took the dangerous, uphill way; to have made such a man "recant" was a sort of miracle of evil...
After only four hours of deliberation the jury brought out its answers: no to the first three questions, yes to the last. Judge Yankwich ordered M-G-M to put Cole back on its payroll and fork over $74,250 in back salary. M-G-M lawyers, who argued that the judge's instructions amounted to a directed verdict for Writer Cole, got ready to take the case to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...more to gain than to lose by running as the rebels' candidate for President. He was picked because he was the most willing and eager. Fielding Wright, 53-year-old lawyer, who is as smooth and cold as a hardboiled egg -and whose home town of Rolling Fork, Miss., has more Negroes than whites-was glad to run as the vice presidential candidate...