Word: shining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shine. In Anson County, N.C., Police Chief Fred Hyatt stopped a man with a satchel on his back, asked to see the contents, was refused, then, feeling certain that he had caught a bootlegger, sent to town for a search warrant, opened the satchel, found half a gallon of milk...
Hoffmann would like to see multiple-choice tests rigorously rewritten or, better still, thrown out of the schools altogether. "Even if the tests were free from all ambiguities and errors," they would still have "serious defects when applied to those people who, despite impressive gifts, do not shine at parlor games...
...rain and the wet dripping, in the dawn and the shine drying...
...Fift . . . uh, no, here," Lucius returned counting out the money for the shine. Rallying slowly, he tied a double knot in his laces and trundled with relief to the stacks...
...time he got set to cough it was too late. She had gone on by and the shine was all over. The boy retied his laces, and just as he did the right one, it broke in his hand...