Word: reclaims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reacted with something more than a Gallic shrug. His grandfather might have shot, whipped or choked the villain straightway. But a man of the husband's generation intends no violence. Instead, he wants to stretch the lovers on a psychological rack, then leave the actor there and reclaim his wife. As a starter, he hires a private detective to make keyhole photographs. For divorce proceedings? "Mais non. For the family album...
...Huey-built Air Line Highway to Baton Rouge to sign them. While she was on the way, Coroner Williams and Parish Sheriff Bryan Clemmons ordered two detectives onto the highway at the parish line to wait for Earl Long, who would surely soon be racing for Baton Rouge to reclaim his power...
Witness after witness took the stand to tell how she had conspired to have her daughter-in-law killed to reclaim the affections of her son Frank, an owl-eyed, 30-year-old lawyer who held hands with her in public, talked with a lisp, was known around the courthouse as "Wicked Wascal Wabbit." Most explicit of all the witnesses were two Santa Barbara ex-convicts, who testified that mother Duncan offered them $6,000 to kill Frank's pregnant wife. They lured her into a rented automobile, beat her into unconsciousness with a pistol, strangled her, then dumped...
...like to get you one.' I said to him, 'I have no use for a rug of this size.' It is a rather large room. He said, 'All right, any time that you move from these premises or go back to New Hampshire, I will reclaim...
...King Feisal, 23, and his cousin Hussein. 22, of Jordan will both keep their crowns and the federal Parliament and Cabinet, controlling foreign and defense policies, will meet alternately in Baghdad and Amman. Still to be worked out: whether Iraq, which has plenty of farm land to reclaim, will be able to absorb many of the 500,000 Palestinian refugees who have made Jordanian politics so volatile. Premier Nuri appears as likely to dominate the new Federation Cabinet as the 14 Cabinets he has bossed in more than 25 years as Iraq's strongman...