Word: state
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...About seating arrangements at state functions: "I don't care. I just want a nice neighbor...
Commander Bodenhamer was born in Texas. He used to teach English and coach athletics at Southwest Texas State Teachers College (San Marcos...
...drawing p. 11); An unholy light filled the wide courtyard of Colorado's State Penitentiary at Canon City, the glare of floodlights and searchlights playing on Cellhouse No. 3. Two other cellhouses, the prison chapel and the messhall, were blazing ruins. In the prison "bull pen"-a sunken space at one side of the yard-some 400 convicts cowered in sullen terror, their shadows moving nightmarishly on the stone walls of the enclosure. From Cellhouse No. 3 where Danny Daniels, burglar-murderer, and five desperate comrades were inducting the worst prison revolt in Colorado's history, came sporadic...
...fact that romantic Montenegro is no longer an independent state (see above) does not prevent its royal princes, still filled with romance, from traveling under their oldtime royal titles...
Fortnight ago when Manuel Morales, his sister Rita and three friends decided to spend their vacation in Oaxaca hunting for buried treasure near the ruined temples of Teposcolula, friends considered them practical, prosaic. So did Oaxaca state authorities who issued a treasure hunting license with the usual provision that 50% of the findings, if any, should be given to the state...