Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nice guy) even though he never joined them at the bistro. Giuseppe did not drink. He had no family and no friends. He had no girl-women frightened him. Nor did he have a God. His fellow workers called him a "devourer of books." He lived alone in a shack on wheels which he moved with him from job to job about the south of France...
...never had anything to love, loved it as a hunter loves his dog or a rider his horse, or perhaps just as a man (in the 20th Century) loves his machine. When the day's work was done, Giuseppe would drive his steam roller around to his shack, and putter about, oiling and cleaning it. Sometimes at work Giuseppe would set the huge machine rolling and get down in the road to stare at it as it marched on alone, slowly and steadily crushing the gravel beneath its bland power...
...Giuseppe's gang stopped repairing war-wrecked roads and started to build a new one, the Road of the Sea, running from Cros-de-Cagnes to Antibes. The Riviera was very gay again. Giuseppe settled his shack near the swank restaurant Rallye; at night he could hear the sounds of the jazz band...
...paper shack at Meredith, N.H., three-year-old William Burns died last week of asphyxiation. A pathologist found black pepper in his lungs. Mrs. Evelyn Cote, 24-year-old mother of the boy-by her first marriage-explained to police that she had fed William "not more than a tablespoon" of pepper as punishment for wetting his bed. She was charged with second-degree manslaughter...
...little frame shack, near Dallas' St. Matthews' Cathedral, a group of teen-aged boys sat cross-legged on a wrestling mat, listening to an Episcopal priest. His language was not out of the King James Version. "Now, I don't want any of you lugs referrin' to Benny as a murderer. I know his story. Got it from the D.A. Now, he's gonna tell it to the Gremlin Court." Benny folded his arms and told the Gremlins his tale. After an hour and a half of questions from the court, Benny passed the stiff...