Word: hem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning Gopal Singh went out on the veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must...
John Snyder obviously meant his parable for his old adversary on price control, Price Boss Chester Bowles. For last week while Chet Bowles fought mightily to hold back the rising tide of prices, the hem of his bathrobe was already...
...India and Burma the young, amiable Emir displayed his sacred person freely to his grateful subjects. Some of his fighting men, overcome by awe, knelt before him to be blessed. Others begged to touch the hem of his robe or (when he wore a uniform) the cuffs of his well-creased trousers. Six Katsinans trekked four days & nights through the jungle to glimpse the red-fezzed head of their Emir. Sergeant Gombo Gombe ("Mr. Five by Five"), fattest front-line fighter in Burma, stripped to the waist to get his rifle immaculate enough to fire a royal salute...
...looks the most like home. It had been late summer three weeks ago as their ship passed under Sydney's great bridge and between the dun-colored cliffs of The Heads to the open sea. This week the pale green of early spring was on the hills that hem in San Francisco...
...John Citizen how he'd go about stopping wars and he'll hem & haw and say Well...