Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more--up to nearly 30 dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...
Force of Evil, based on Ira Wolfert's novel Tucker's People, takes too long to say too little, and it uses too much high-flown language in dealing with its lowbrow characters. Unable to keep the story alive with dialogue and camera, Director-Scenarist Abraham Polonsky sometimes puts his star on the sound track as narrator. This leads to some confusion: Has the novel been made into a movie, or is it just being read aloud, with a pictorial background...
...ground I have seen in America . . . For rural scenes and pritty, frank girls, I found it the most agreeable place I had been in thro' all my peregrinations." To Chronicler Hamilton the American character in Rhode Island seemed no more admirable than elsewhere: "I am sorry to say that the people in their dealings one with another, and even with strangers, in matters of truck or bargain, have as bad a character for chicane and disingenuity as any of our American colonys...
...easy enough," she cabled, "to say that the Greek war is an affair of daily raids in which armed bands . . . swoop down from the cracks and crevices of a mountain . . . to sack or burn villages and carry off able-bodied men and girls to forced service in their armies. But the imagination cannot picture the desolation that this hit-and-run fighting leaves behind it . . . Everywhere, the atmosphere was heavy with suspense. In such fearful quiet must the early settlers in the West have waited the descent of the Indians...
...fellows didn't look too good," was all track coach Jaakko Mikkola had to say after Saturday's practice meet at Briggs Cage between the Crimson, Boston University, and Northeastern...