Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...low, drawling voice, Davis recalled his early days in Dawson, Ga., where he grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Grandson of a slave and son of a newspaper editor, he had it better than most Southern Negroes. He went north to Amherst where he played varsity football, then took a law degree at Harvard...
...over the death chair. A moth fluttered about it. Sheridan's weak blue eyes followed the moth intently as it circled the light. Then the mask came down over his face, guards deftly snapped the electrodes on his arms and legs, and the dynamo started up with a low whine. At 11:11 p.m. the prison physician put his stethoscope to Sheridan's chest. "This man is dead," he said in a flat voice...
...Farmers," he added, "are running into debt because of low government prices for their forced food deliveries; they like our support of higher prices. Many merchants and businessmen are going bankrupt because of high taxes, so they join our mass demonstrations for low taxes . . . Present conditions have caused a clear left tendency...
...low-rent housing program, for which the Government will dole out $400 million a year-if that much is needed-for the next 40 years; 1,050,000 low-rent housing units were ordered up in the next seven years (the Senate's bill would spend only $308 million a year on 810,000 units and the House figures will undoubtedly be adjusted to that in conference). The Government will make up the difference between the artificially low rents and the actual operating costs...
...lecture. Last November, prisoners were told how Henry Wallace had been defrauded of the U.S. presidency by vote-buying and illegal balloting organized by Democrats and Republicans. Recently they were told that MacArthur was forcibly taking rice from Japanese farmers for shipment to America; in return the U.S. shipped low-grade corn meal to Japan. They discussed the Atlantic pact as "The Prelude to World...