Word: lifelong
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Returning to Texas, Hardin married, went into the cattle business, killed at least four and perhaps eight Negro policemen, was almost killed when a local badman emptied a shotgun into him point blank. Chased by one mob after another while terribly wounded, he developed his lifelong fear of lynching, surrendered to the authorities, who let him escape. Cutting his way out of jail in broad daylight, he wrote that the guards told him when to work, "as the saw made a big fuss." Free, he plunged into the Sutton-Taylor feud, killed Sheriff Jack Helms, enjoyed a period of relative...
Born in Arpinum in 106 B.C., Cicero was a "new man," an upstart and outsider, belonging to the mercantile class that stood between the nobility and the commons. Thin, long-necked, timid, wearying friends by overpraising himself, Cicero made a poor hero. Academic Dr. Richards considers his lifelong hesitancy a sign of devotion to the Roman Republic. But readers may feel, on the strength of Dr. Richards' account, that Cicero simply could not make up his mind where he stood in the issue of democracy v. dictatorship. He had a yes-and-no policy on the soldiers' bonus...
...police chief. In spite of Jamie's record as a onetime Federal sleuth who gave criminal Chicago a wash behind the ears, St. Paul's city fathers balked at bringing in an outsider. So Commissioner Warren appointed as St. Paul's Chief of Police a lifelong friend named Michael Joseph Culligan, who stepped out of the lumber business to help run the reform election campaign...
Last week Governor Sholtz signed a bill reducing Florida's residence requirement for divorce from one year to 90 days. Its legislative sponsors had frankly termed it a bid for some of Nevada's 42-day and Arkansas' 90-day divorce trade. Said Governor Sholtz, a lifelong Congregationalist: "Florida is a tourist State, extending to the people of the United States an invitation to come here as visitors and remain as residents. If this bill brings additional residents or visitors to Florida, it will be in line with that invitation...
Honoring Edwin Arlington Robinson, the Widener Treasure Room this week has on exhibition copies of practically all of the poet's works in original first editions, together with many letters from Robinson to his publisher and to Professor Bliss Perry, his lifelong friend...