Word: reckonings
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...squatters-" rose, reached a frightening crescendo and fell again. From the squatters, whose morale still held, came the answering chant, "We'll stick it-we'll stick it." A poorly dressed woman wiped her eyes, smiled and said: "Ah, bless 'em, poor devils, I reckon they deserve medals for this." On the outskirts of the crowd a middleaged, middle-class man stood watching. "Poor devils," he said. "Pity they can't see how they're being used by the Reds...
...reckon dyin' is black. Some folks say it's gold. Some say it's white as hominy grits . . . I reckon it's black...
There were more of the same; all were beaten. But still the Senate could not get on with the vote. There was still Bill Langer to reckon with-a man determined never to let his anger be watered by reason. His objection to the draft extension resolution had been ignored. Now he was fixing to filibuster the Senate into repentance...
Again, the Communists had failed to reckon with the Church. No blaring slogans or challenging invective came from Catholic pulpits. But on Sunday (i.e., election day) morning, cures throughout France preached that "to abstain from the polls is treason." The congregations went out from Mass to cast their...
...fields of Red River Valley and on the crowd gathered around a dusty truck. A sunburned farmer squinted appraisingly at a little man standing and shouting on the truck's tailpiece. "He wouldn't be no account on a thrashin' gang," the farmer said. "But I reckon he's smart. And he talks plain...