Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extent that will never be undone. Despite Author Williams' naive and sarcastic assertion, I know, and you should know, that this book is readily adaptable to planting in the mind of a child receptiveness to the idea of marriage between white and black human beings. No responsible person will deny that just such use is being made of this type material today...
...hearings, said Scott, often had "a nightmare quality ... At one point a woman rose from the audience and shouted that Mr. Strauss had financed the Russian Revolution. So bizarre had been some of the evidence against Mr. Strauss that, instead of recognizing this as the ravings of an unfortunate person, I wondered if in fact this was not the next witness...
Only through Dominique's rose-colored mules, which she had kicked off in her agony, were the police able to identify the charred body. The first person they went looking for was, quite naturally, her protector. At first, Bill and his mistress stuck by their story-anyone, said Bill, might have an empty oil can in his car or a bunch of 7.65 shells hidden in his bathroom. But in the end, the evidence was too much. Still the compleat caïd, who would show neither pity nor remorse, Bill made a detailed confession, blandly explained: "I knew...
...mountain villages and scores of swarming coastal towns, the citizens of semiautonomous Sicily quietly went to the polls and made their much-ballyhooed choice. To the confusion of just about everybody except the Sicilians, the real victor was neither Communism nor Christian Democracy. It was "Sicilianism" in the orotund person of Silvio Milazzo, president of Sicily's regional government...
...marriage just about the time he is discovering that if he loves anybody at all it is most probably his wife. The evangelist, confronted by George in a final bleating fit of frustration, poses the question that stalks all the characters from bed to bed: "Does one person in a hundred thousand know what he really believes or what he really ought...