Word: tillman
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...close by the Georgia line, Strom (rhymes with plum) Thurmond is the grandson of a Confederate corporal, the son of a judge and local Democratic leader. His boyhood hero was a friend of his father's: South Carolina's Governor and later Senator Benjamin Ryan ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, one of the most unabashed racists in Southern history. Strom graduated from Clemson College, taught a high school course in agriculture for a while, studied law at night in his father's office, finally ran for curcuit court judge...
Selby's six-month search for a murderer was filled with bizarre frustrations. He paid a woman named Lizzie Lee to find him a killer. Lizzie disappeared without doing the job. Selby next turned to Waitress Lillie Tillman for help, and she, too, failed to find a murderer for hire. So Selby paid Lillie to mail Wilma a box of poisoned chocolates. Lillie deceived him by mailing unpoisoned candy. In all, she took Selby for more than...