Word: inded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price. The deal was sealed so secretly that not even Observer editors knew it until they were handed the story to run. If they had any Tarheel resentment at an outlander moving in, they covered it with Southern tactfulness: "Mr. Nicholson," said the Observer story, "was born in Richmond, Ind. [where] his ancestors migrated from North Carolina during the early part of the last century...
Laying the Ghost. In Bloomington, Ind., after his parents had told him to keep out of the barn because "there's a bogey man in there," five-year-old Philip Oliver smoked him out by burning down the barn...
...would be gamblers if we'd been so lucky as you have." That conclusion hotted up the Tennessee temper of crime-busting Senator Estes Kefauver: Cohen should have been given a heavier sentence "instead of a pat on the back." From the Billy Sunday Memorial Tabernacle near Warsaw, Ind. came the view of Evangelist Billy Graham: "I am praying that after Mickey Cohen has paid his debt to society, he will give his heart and life...
...Exemption. In Mount Vernon, Ind., after reading an advertisement offering $10 off the price of a used car for each child of the purchaser, Typesetter Wilfred Clark picked out a $100 Pontiac, marched his ten children past the dealer, drove away with a bill of sale...
Self-Conscious. In Washington, Ind., the county poor farm made $1,386 profit from the first month's production of its nine oil wells, changed its name to the Daviess County Home...