Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story goes that a young Eastern lawyer complained to an old Texas judge about the Texas way with crime. "I don't understand Texas justice," said the lawyer. "You will suspend sentence of a convicted murderer, but you wall hang a horse thief." The old judge rang a spittoon with a stream of tobacco juice. "Sonny," he replied, "I reckon that's 'cause we got men that need killin' but we ain't got no hosses that need stealin...
...always polite to his neighbors. Félicie was a short, plump, sad-eyed widow with bobbed greying hair. Eleven months ago she disappeared. Clé explained, "Félicie has gone to Italy. Life is much easier there. I will soon join her." But to occasional callers who rang the bell and asked for her, Charles Clément was more truthful: "Madame cannot be disturbed. She is in the bathtub...
Another left to the body by Akins buckled DeMarco forward to his knees and he was wobbling as the bell rang...
Looking back on last spring's great cut-that-budget fracas, an economy-minded member of Congress might well wonder whether it was just a dream. Despite all the battle cries that rang out on Capitol Hill, despite all the warlike swings of economy axes, that same federal budget now looms a cool billion bigger than President Eisenhower's year-ago estimate of $71.8 billion...
...three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle." The son of a Presbyterian minister, he rang some of his angriest cadences against anti-Catholic bigots, called them "equal to any crime requiring no physical courage...