Word: tilling
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...Noblet Duplessis' patron, St. Joseph. Wednesday is Duplessis' favorite day of the week: he always tries to save his important acts for that day. After Mass in the morning, he toured all 119 polling booths in his home town, Trois-Rivières. He shook hands till his fingers cramped, greeting voters by their first names. Time & again his henchmen restrained him as he reached in his pocket for quarters for moppets: "Not on election day, Maurice." At 6:30 p.m. Bachelor Duplessis, exhausted, went home to his sister's house and tumbled into...
...night early this month they walked drunkenly into a Columbus tavern, yanked out automatic pistols and took $800 in cash and checks from the till. Half an hour later they walked into another bar and began shooting. They killed the owner, wounded a woman customer, jubilantly scooped up another...
...only been here two months but I really do like it . . . We certainly don't get food like this at home." To this the young Russian nods understandingly and vigorously and says simply: "Me too." All seems to be going splendidly for a pleasant three-power chat till a dark, curly-haired Soviet major taps the lieutenant on the shoulder and murmurs something briefly. The chat ends abruptly, as the lieutenant looks back regretfully at his unfinished plate. The American shrugs...
...posteriors with the great. To these rules, Hover adds a few of his own. Recently he has installed over the dance floor a new lighting fixture designed to enhance milady's makeup. As the evening (and milady's Pancake) begins to wear, the parabolic light slowly dims till by 2 a.m. faces can hardly be discerned...
...heart ailment; in Dunn, N.C. A non-West Pointer who stuck to the Army after World War I, Paratrooper Lee spent much of the '30s as a military observer in Europe, organized the Army's first experimental paratroop units in 1940, commanded the 101st Airborne Division till a heart ailment retired him to a desk job just before...