Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bullets raked his 320 lean and hilly acres, killed a hog, a mule and a dog, and pinked daughter Zola's left ear. Webb thought it best to go away for awhile. For two years he worked in Hamilton, Ohio, and made his name there slashing off a man's ear in a fight. He came back often, disguised sometimes in his 80-year-old mother's pink bonnet and skirts. This spring he thrust away all fear and came home for good. "They run me home, and that...
Long Arm of the Law. In Muscatine, Iowa, the chief of police suspended Officer Danny Honts for conduct unbecoming an officer, charged that "Honts, on duty, in a Muscatine restaurant did lean over the counter and strike the buttocks of the waitress with a receipt book three times...
...President Dunster added it to the growing College. It was renamed Goffe College, and turned into a dormitory to supplement the space available in Eaton House and a new building to the rear called the Old College. On the first floor there was a "Great Hall" and a lean-to kitchen; two chambers filled the second floor, and above them were three gabled garrets. For the needier schoolers, there was also an undesirable "lowest chamber," presumably in the basement...
...little aloof from Russia. A Communist China which regards itself as the equal of Russia and which may feel that its interests clash with those of Russia in Asia is a better prospect for the Western world than a China which is made to feel that it must lean on Russia or face the prospect of having enemies on both flanks...
...Communist Koestler writes of his seven lean years in the party with a kind of choked-up reluctance; in a sense, he has already made bigger and better confessions in his fiction. The Invisible Writing is nevertheless a fascinating document in which Koestler reaffirms membership in the company of those who, like Silone. Malraux, Chambers and others, have "seen the future" and are very much afraid that it may work. Koestler confesses to a recurring dream in which he shouts warning of terrible danger to a crowd, but no one will listen. With his faculty for making his nightmares come...