Word: reckoner
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...Kept alert by strong black coffee, sleeping by turns inside the chamber, the anti-Communists outlasted their opponents. By a brisk vote of 342-170, De Gasperi sailed through with authority to join the Atlantic pact (he had still to win Senate approval). Togliatti bawled: "You will have to reckon with the Italian people!" Fellow Traveler Nenni echoed: "The fight has just begun!" Government supporters triumphantly sang the national anthem-"Brothers of Italy ... of Italy awakened." Marxists responded with Garibaldi's defiant old war chant-"Foreigners, get out of Italy...
...Farmer Abrell and his daughters Nancy Ruth and Rachel walked home up the road behind the church. In the light of the full moon, overflowing corncribs stood like sentinels. Rachel slipped her hand into her father's arm. After a few minutes he said, half to himself: "I reckon we've got things to be thankful...
...neighborhood, of a Southern gentleman, who looked so at home beneath the lithograph of the Charge of The First Maryland Regiment At The Death Of Ashby, that he obviously lived in this confederate fort. "What number is this house," we asked. "Man," his polite rejoinder echoed, "I reckon I don't rightly know...
...Saturday last we were seeking Scott Stadium, scene of a football game. We halled a provender of football programs (25 confederate pesos by volume). "Man," he said, "ah reckon ah don't rightly know whar 'tis." Over the hill we came upon the Stadium. An usher stood in a grey uniform, "where's section A?" we asked. "Man, ah reckon ah don't rightly know, but you're on a one-way street. How'd you all get in heah...
...might do well yourself, in fact, to follow the party line the next time your maiden aunt asks you about that homicide Saturday south of the border. Just look dark and reconstructed and say, "Mammy, ah reckon ah don't rightly know...