Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here." The Ku Klux Klan was strong in the Midwest in those days. Jim Montgomery's trial, on a capital charge, lasted only one day. The prosecution offered no convincing medical proof of rape, but the jury convicted him anyway. He was sent to Joliet for life...
...though the people there have no use for you either. They have had enough of you bloodsuckers. Several of the Amis [slang for Americans] have already told me they forgive us for everything except one thing: that we did not gas all the Jews, for many are now enjoying life in America...
Another good bet is Shelley Winters, the tidiest little actress to come Hollywood's way in years. In A Double Life, Larceny and The Great Gatsby she played the kind of chippie-off-the-block whom men inevitably fall for and (in the movies) just as inevitably murder. She brought to her few short scenes a cheap-cologne breath of real life that lingers on. However, at present Shelley's charms, encased in her typecast, do not appear to the best advantage...
...couple of sun-scorched, rocky acres on the outskirts of the town of Sérignan, in the department of Vaucluse. On this scrap of earth, which he fondly called his Eden, Henri Fabre settled down, at the age of 55, to the full-time pursuit of his life work: the study of living insects...
Fabre shunned the "solemnity, nay, better, the dryness, of the schools" in his writing, as he did the dreary probing of dead insects in his studies. To the pedants he said: "You rip up the animal and I study it alive . . . You pry into death, I pry into life...