Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story spread across sleepy Lake County like fire in a stand of slash pine. By nightfall all the county knew that Willie Padgett's 17-year-old wife had been raped by four Negroes; two of the suspects were already locked up in the county jail at Tavares...
...count), three mavericks were out to break the firm grip which Senator Byrd keeps on the governor's mansion of his home state. Debate waxed hot on Virginia's hustings. At pre-primary barbecues, crab feasts and picnics, Harry Byrd's obedient lieutenants acted like men who had to work for votes...
Ordinarily Byrd's steamroller would flatten a man like Miller with ease. But two other conservative candidates might divide Harry Byrd's traditional bloc of 110,000 to 130,000 machine-turned votes. They were Horace Edwards, 46, former mayor of Richmond, who broke with the machine last year when Byrd tried to keep Harry Truman's name off Virginia's ballot ; and Remmie L. Arnold, a pen & pencil maker and inveterate "joiner" (he is slated to become Imperial Potentate of the Shrine...
...members had paid a $59 initiation fee for the right to dig a ditch or hoist a hod. His campaign for nomination (which President Truman did not support) had been expensive. In Washington, he rented an eleven-room house on fashionable Marlboro Pike, sported two Cadillacs, and dressed like a Texas banker...
Detectives, sheriffs and special investigators 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...