Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place in an unmarked helicopter flanked by two others; after word had gone out that he would arrive by chopper at Miami's International Airport, he touched down at a country club miles away. Lyndon said that there were "reasons to take additional precautions," but would not spell them out. "Maybe a year from now, or two years, or five years from now, I can tell you what the situation was," said Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. The most persistent rumor was that the Secret Service had been tipped that a Cuban kamikaze pilot might try to ram the presidential...
...Russian language, as rich and varied as English, is equally hard to comprehend and spell. With the 1917 revolution came a determined effort to clean up the lingual mess, and the regime simplified spelling rules and eliminated outdated letters. Just by liquidating the hard sign at the end of words, printers saved 70 pages on each copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace...
...these days, Lucy Baines Johnson, 16, didn't get to see the Beatles at all. But L.BJ. did agree to allow his younger daughter to serve as queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in April. Small recompense, but Lucy-or Luci, as she now likes to spell it-was thrilled. "I've never been anything," said she, "not even a duchess...
State criminal codes and common law spell out a variety of reasons for which a prospective juror may be disqualified by the judge for prejudicial cause-actually witnessing the crime, opposing the death sentence in a capital case, or simply admitting bias against either side...
...capital, so where is the poor fellow to turn? Well, to marriage and to an heiress, of course. By the time one twin substitutes for another in the courtship-naturally falling in love with the lady-and Mamma is once again solvent, the reader has come to feel the spell of a slight-prose master whose writing suggests not only Jane Austen and Angela Thirkell but perhaps the Bobbsey Twins as well...