Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page 14, Hero Roger Duval, a youthful Confederate spy, has been saved from drowning in the Sacramento River by a beautiful prostitute named Morina, and has in turn saved her from being arrested for larceny. He has also fallen head over ears in love with her. By page 36, Morina has loved him and left him (he's a sweet boy, she reckons, but what good's Cupid without a bank balance?). By page 47, avid Roger has tracked Morina to the red-light district in Virginia City; and by page 60 he is suffering pangs of anguish...
Strong Drink. In Sacramento, Frank Taylor, after carelessly gulping blazing-hot coffee, 1) choked, 2) bit his lip, 3) fell off his chair, 4) struck his head, 5) cut his ear, 6) went to a hospital...
...Wine, New Bottles. Most of the actual work of running the new winery, along with Di Giorgio Fruit, has fallen on the heirs apparent to the fruit empire, four of the childless little king's nephews. All told, they boss dozens of enterprises (orchards in the Sacramento Valley, a cannery and 8,000 acres of citrus groves in Florida, a box factory in Oregon, etc.), which netted $4,212,000 last year...
...Moscow's New Times read the U.S. a history lesson implying that any attempt on its part to gain world domination via the atom would fail. ¶ At Sacramento, Calif., the aviators who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki were asked if they wanted it placed under international control. Shouted the fivers: "Hell...
Retainer. In Sacramento, Calif., John O'Day, 76, arrested 73 times since he first hit a bartender with a bucket of whitewash in 1915, persuaded the county supervisors to award him a $50-a-month pension, on the ground that it would be cheaper than supporting him in jail...