Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the end of the trial, the bishop began to wilt, his ruddy face gone sallow, his eyes vacant behind the thick lenses. As the prosecutor summed up-about the missing typewriter, the assumed name, the charwoman's scrap of paper, the fingerprints-the bishop clutched his chair, and glanced nervously from judge to defense counsel. Finally, last week, it was over, and all Sweden breathed a sigh of relief...
...Sure Loser. A team of linguistic experts testified to 32 different points of similarity between the anonymous letters and writings known to be by Helander. Most noteworthy: his peculiar abbreviation, "Nr:2" for "No. 2." A university charwoman testified that she found a scrap of one of the letters in Helander's scrap basket. Then the bishop's fingerprints were discovered on three of the letters...
...finally gave way, in 1926, to another general, sly Kurt von Schleicher. Under Schleicher, the army was not above, but in, politics. Vain, unscrupulous, he schemed incessantly behind the republic's back. Worst of all, he let Hitler's private army of brown shirts grow to a scrap-happy, unmanageable...
White cleared every scrap of paper out of his office, packed his goods in crates, and rode off in the truck that carried the crates. Eleven months later White was called to testify before the New York federal grand jury, which was investigating Communist infiltration. The jury did not indict him. That was 20 months before Chambers identified the pumpkin-paper memorandum in White's handwriting...
...scroll is a letter dated October 29, 1886 from Frederick Almy '80 to Wetherbee, then chairman of the undergraduate literary committee of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the College, asking for tickets to the literary exercises in Sanders Theatre. Attached to the letter is a scrap of paper which Wetherbee says was "tucked beneath the flap of the envelope as though it had been an afterthought," the message read--"Have you ever discovered a Transmittindum in your room, a parchment scroll with the names of all the occupants of the room, in an augur hole...