Word: peg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frail Peg. Where the President was concerned, said Mitchell, his policy in effect had been "speak no evil," and the President had been quite ready to see and hear no evil. Mitchell claimed that he withheld what he knew from the President in their many conversations. Mitchell also claimed to be convinced, not by anything the President said but by what was not said in those conversations, that no one else, including John Dean, had told the President who had been involved in the Watergate planning or its cover-up until at least nine months after the arrests at Democratic...
Rosalie remembers the eyes which seemed to hurl accusations at the world, and she remembers that her mother and her mother's peg-legged friend also watched the execution with a darting glare. The girl realizes that seemingly placid slaves have made the bearing of their lives into an outcry. When Bayangumay flees the plantation, Rosalie lapses into madness--an epileptic state in which the slave-child first takes for herself the name of Solitude. She survives a pair of doting masters, the initial freedoms gained by the French Revolution, the forced-labor corvees which are then resumed...
...wife Peg came running into the kitchen. She had been asleep, and the noise of the door frightened her. She thought the furnace had exploded. Half-relieved, but not yet over her fear, she was not angry. After all, she had been married to the machinist for ten years. Harris apologized and resolved to block the reapportionment problem from his mind for a few days, and went to sleep...
...afume with adult cigar smoke ("One of the great disappointments of my life has been the fact that no cigar ever tasted as good as that cigar smoke used to smell there by Crystal Lake"). Of course there was a high school play. In a performance of Peg o' My Heart, Bruce was called upon by the script to kiss the heroine. He did, but in walking her home afterward, he could not nerve himself to do it again...
...Heimert donned his peg leg, whistled to his trusty Moby the Zamboni, filled his saddle bags with beer and answered his Don's call with the cry. "Next to liberty, the brotherhood most dear...