Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried (but failed) to get into the record a statement accusing McCarthy himself of plotting to overthrow the Government by "force and violence" in favor of fascism. Kent admitted sending $800 to the Communist Party in 1933-the money, however, was rent paid for his house by an "insulting" tenant and he had only given it to the Communists because it seemed the most "hateful thing" to do with it. Personally, he said, he knew "very little about the Communist Party...
...charged husband Timothy Evans with the murder of the baby. Christie was the chief witness at the trial, and his evidence helped send Evans to the gallows. Last December Mrs. Christie disappeared. No one in the Notting Hill neighborhood paid much attention. Later, after Christie moved away, a new tenant found a woman's leg behind some wallpaper in the bathroom (TIME, April 16). A police search uncovered the trussed and strangled bodies of three women hidden in a sealed closet, another under the floorboards, the remains of at least two others in a buried garbage...
Within the rather contrived framework of a sideshow stand, where the customers try to knock down figures of assorted sins, the picture illustrates each transgression in turn. Avarice and Anger are embodied in a vignette about a greedy landlord, his wife and a poor tenant. Sloth tells how St. Peter dispatches a female emissary from heaven to slow down the feverish life on earth. In Lust, an adolescent girl is disillusioned when her mother has an affair with a roving artist. All three episodes are commonplace in writing and direction...
Last week his "aged parents" were installed in Bazainville. The new tenant, in fact, proved to be ailing Maurice Thorez, boss of France's Communists just back from Moscow...
Born in a dugout home on a Texas tenant farm, Robert Lee (Bob) Thornton chopped brush, plowed with mules, slept in piles of cotton hulls, saved his money, went to Dallas, got a job as a bookkeeper with a firm that folded, got into the textbook business and went broke, started a "jitney loan" business which grew into the Mercantile National Bank. He grew rich and he grew old, but he refused to relax. ("You can't do a damned thing in a rocking chair-lots of action but no progress!") He lived...