Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretend to be an expert on Communism or any other kind of a political 'ism'," said Second-Baseman Robinson. ". . . But you can put me down as an expert on being a colored American, with 30 years' experience at it. And ... I know that life in these United States can be mighty tough for people who are a little different from the majority - in their skin color, in the way they worship their God, in the way they spell their names...
...Justice. There, with an air of martyred misery in an unaccustomed role, Frank Murphy sat out the afternoon of his life. For a while he turned up regularly at Washington parties. Although gossip involved him in various romances, he never married...
...which he included the right of Jehovah's Witnesses even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, as no trial at all but a "revengeful blood purge." Gradually he withdrew from social life. His heart had never been quite equal to his spiritual drive, nor was it equal to the exacting, wearing work of the court. His Bible was by now so thumbed and tattered he had to wrap it in a towel to keep it intact...
...lugubrious little man for whom life has suddenly become unbearably complex, Mickey sat up in his hospital room in powder-blue pajamas, his arm strapped up in a sling. Snapped Mickey: "I set myself up four nights in a row as a clay pigeon. [Attorney General] Howser must have had a hell of a tip." He was sure it was not a local bookie ("Every bookie in this town is a very close personal friend of mine," said Mickey firmly), nor imported Eastern gunmen. "I call New York, Chicago and Cleveland regular," said Mickey. "I'm a well-informed...
...swarmed in to ask him questions. Mickey was impatient. "They want me to sit here and lie-just to make it look like they're getting somewhere. Well, I don't lie. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I lead a real pure life...