Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Klan robes were all locked up that night in the Klavern, opened his own investigation. Soon he had statements from Toombs County law enforcement officers, including Sheriff Gray, exonerating the Klan. Said the sheriff: "This Negro was a bad Negro, as I have had dealings with him. I further know that this Negro was hated by all who knew...
...rabbit. "The Kremlin has decided to emasculate every elephant in Russia." The dog shook his head in mystery. "But I still don't understand," he said. "Why on earth should that worry you? They said nothing about rabbits, did they?" "Fool!" hissed the rabbit. "You don't know those people in the Kremlin. They'll emasculate me first-and then make me prove I'm not an elephant...
There were other signs of economic exhaustion. Government statistical reports were months late, as if functionaries were afraid to let the world know the score. Though the last cost-of-living index appeared in March, labor argued that living costs had doubled in a year, and was out for higher wages. The last reliable official reports on foreign trade were for April...
...wall so that others could not enjoy it. Invited out to dinner, he insisted that there be no dogs around, and no flowers on the table, lest other guests indulge in sentimentalities. This was the Degas whom the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry came to know, an old man raging at his enemies and riding alone on the tops of buses...
When Wildman managed to struggle free, he demanded to know the meaning of this outrage. He would see his lawyers, he said. That was all right with Headmaster Copping. He and the students had planned the incident to give Wildman some of his own medicine. Copping had even trapped Wildman by persuading him that Horsley Hall (a progressive school) tolerated corporal punishment. "I hope he does sue," said Copping. "We only did what he advised as suitable for children...