Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asked if she still loved Stepho, Nadia answered that "certainly, my love has faded a bit." Snapped the military prosecutor: "Only faded? Don't you now hate him?" Nadia glanced tenderly at Stepho, replied: "It seems you don't understand love, otherwise you would know that a love of eight years cannot disappear in a moment...
...Goddard. A quick and brilliant man, he was often impatient, earned for his court the nickname "justice-in-a-jiffy." In one hour last July, he disposed of six appeals. To one man contesting a magistrate's order, he snapped: "Go away. I simply don't know what all this is about." To another who insisted that he had been convicted under the wrong section of a municipal ordinance, he roared: "What section should you have been convicted under? I am sure you should have been convicted of something. Application dismissed...
...supported racial segregation won him the derisive title of "the Messiah of Waterberg." His opponents of the largely English-speaking United Party were all much wittier and smoother than Strijdom, but they could find no defense against his blunt, brutal singleness of purpose. "With Hans," said Afrikaners happily, "you know where...
...Oglethorpe University, he went to Cuba to help run his father's textile mills. He met Batista at the Oriental Park race track near Havana one afternoon in 1939, struck up a friendship by striking a match for the dictator's cigar. The two got to know each other better during fishing expeditions and at parties in a house they shared in a seacoast town 27 miles outside of Havana...
...Anteroom Note. Everyone involved in the scandal suddenly became so tight-mouthed and empty-headed that neither networks nor sponsor nor Dotto's owner (Frank Cooper Associates) seemed to know enough between them to rate a spot on the show. But despite the determined silences, the story leaked...