Word: peddler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three witches are historical figures: Anne de Chantraine, a peddler's moony daughter, is burned at 17 in Liège; Charles Poirot, a physician who falls in love with a monstrously pious lady invalid and is burned after she retreats from him into hysteria and screams that he has possessed her; Jeanne Harvilliers, a gypsy's granddaughter filled with loathing for the lead-souled villagers who come to her for love charms and poisons. The book's flat prose is curiously eloquent. "She was on the side of the executioners," the account says of a young...
...second conviction for selling marijuana carries four times the potential maximum penalty as manslaughter or some types of sabotage. Nor can Mitchell's legal mind easily tolerate a law that threatens the same punishment to a casual user of marijuana as it does to a wholesale pot peddler. After some initial hesitation, the Justice Department is attempting to make the statutes more rational...
...single picture of Jesus Christ. Though the years stretched out in a monotony of sameness, there was always the fear of detection. With his father now dead, Cortés realized that each pack of cigarettes, each shirt his wife bought could give them away. Juliana became a peddler and would go down to Málaga to sell Mijas' hemp products and to buy miscellaneous goods and clothes for resale in Mijas, so that an extra shirt or trousers caused no comment. In fact, when local searches for Cortés failed, the police believed that...
Something Basic. The business was founded by Levi Strauss, a Bavarian peddler who followed the gold rush to California in 1850. He saw a demand for trousers strong enough to withstand the rigors of mining. Using bolts of tent canvas, he devised what quickly came to be known around San Francisco as "those pants of Levi's." Over the years, denim replaced canvas, and Levi's acquired their distinctive indigo-blue color and low-slung design. Strauss, a bachelor, died in 1902, leaving the company to four nephews...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A wily Texas canine matches wits with a thief intent on stealing from an itinerant peddler's wagon in "Pancho, Fastest Paw in the West...