Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrewd prodding, Carol had apparently gotten Janney to do some talking. With carefully culled excerpts from her conversations with him, as verified only by Carol, the defense tried to prove that Janney was emphatically prejudiced ("Those goddam Communists-If anyone ever mentions Marxism-Leninism to me, I'll knock his block off"). They contended he was determined to find the defendants guilty ("Whatever the verdict is, it will be appealed and appealed...
Enquirer Publisher Roger Ferger, who knows that there is no other Sunday paper in Cincinnati for Catholics (or anybody else) to read, replied with a promise to Monsignor Freking: "You'll change your mind about the Weekly after...
...Bryant's to find wistful hints of glories past,* when she was the biggest, flossiest playhouse afloat. Those were the magnolia-scented days when the showboats moved as regularly as the spring floods and, according to legend, a Bayou mother could say of her child, "He'll be foah, come next floatin' showhouse." Today, twelve years after the Goldenrod became a virtual landlubber at her St. Louis mooring, Cap'n Menke, 70, talks (as he does each year) of getting up steam again. "With her new hull," he says stoutly, "we could take her anywhere...
...when Dr. William Beebe made his record ocean descent in his baby blue Bathysphere off Bermuda, he had to stop at 3,028 feet because the cable was about to run out. As he crawled out on deck after being pulled up, Scientist Beebe announced: "I'll tell the world that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives which really have no scientific value...
...lights went out. Listeners above could hear his teeth chattering and he seemed short of breath. Once he said: "I'm freezing to death." But he stuck it out to 4,500. "I'll say it's cold down here. There goes a big white jellyfish. I never saw anything like that before...