Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dammit, that'll learn you. When I say move, you'll know what I mean.' I could see that man was dead." Sergeant Pate, too late to help, found the dead man humped outside in the snow. "He looked like he was an old man . . . a rack of bones." said Pate, "but he was only...
Revealing Rack. Lucrezia, his second wife, was running to fat, dull and fearful, a natural target for his abuse. Not Beatrice. As the papal prosecutor pieced it together, she decided to kill her father and persuaded mother Lucrezia and brother Giacomo to cooperate. Big, powerful Olimpio agreed to do the killing for his mistress and a messy job it was. The family explanation that Cenci had fallen to his death through a rickety balcony was too easily disproved, and even Pope Clement VIII refused to temper justice with mercy. Beatrice, Lucrezia and Giacomo all confessed, though modern justice might question...
...fourth floor of the Department of Athletics, under lock and key, rests an infamous roulette wheel which Tom Bolles & Co. twirl three times a year. Some midnight last December, while the windows were frosted and baseball bats locked in their rack, the black and red went spinning. A gleeful smile, a click, click, click, and six Christmas presents to six varsity coaches...
...center of town -traditionally a hotel preserve. In hotel-short New Orleans the new, $2,000,000 redwood-and-glass Motel de Ville, which has a pool, a cocktail lounge, restaurant and 24-hour room service, is only 15 blocks from the central shopping district, and manages to rack up a 100% occupancy rate. Those who stay outside town struggle for a choice highway intersection, or even a slight rise of ground so that motorists can see them from afar. Wherever a motelman does well, he can soon expect a rival to try to set up an even flossier motel...
This year Weston's worldwide interests will rack up sales totaling more than $1 billion, and profits will probably top $40 million...