Word: sulphureous
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...judge announces, "cannot thereafter be given a capital sentence." Barabbas gasps. "I can't be killed! He died in my place! The death has been paid! He has taken my death!" The judge smiles a little, and consigns the defendant to a fate rather worse than death: the sulphur mines of Sicily...
...shoot for the brass ring?'' asked New Hampshire's Republican Governor Samuel Wesley Powell Jr. "Why not go for the presidency?'' So last week mused Wes Powell, 46, even as he recuperated in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., from a mild heart attack suffered in March. The scoffers could scoff and the skeptics could skept, but Powell was in dead earnest about grabbing for the brass ring in 1964. He had already laid out a set of plans, based mainly on his record as a rip-roaring stump speaker, a perpetual-motion campaigner...
...tires on Bowman's car were slashed, and dents were pounded into its hood and sides. The next day, the windows were smashed, and on the house was written "Eichmann" in lipstick letters 20 inches high. On March 16, a fire was set with a sulphur bomb on the fender of Bowman's car. Uncalled delivery trucks arrived from every direction. "One night," said Bowman, "we got five cabs, two tow trucks, 14 pizzas, nine chickens, enough frogs' legs for 18 people, day and night television service, liquor deliveries-everything...
...medal was too much. Rio's O Globo complained that "hung on the chest of a false Cuban and authentic Communist, the emblem of Christ's Cross has been completely devalued." Sharper still was the blast from sulphur-tongued Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara state (which includes Rio de Janeiro), whose original election-campaign support for Quadros has since changed to dismay at Quadros' flirtation with Communists ("future hangmen of their fathers, spies of their brothers...
...Reclamation Department engineers insist that this is just the beginning; they talk of an expanding network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Industry is moving into the area. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is building the world's largest mine-and-mill potash project at Cane Creek, Utah; San Francisco Chemical Co. will dig and process phosphates near Vernal, Utah...