Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ashamed I ever went there. Years ago I swore I'd never go to that damned town again. . . . I play my game in the open...
...came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise the expenditure of some 40 billions of public funds...
...last October, this October fell less than one inch. Abandoned private steam plants were prepared for operation. Housewives had to be told to cut down on current. Only every other street light burned at night. Electrical signs were shut off. The lights on the tower of the city hall went dark for the first time in 30 years...
...months ago Mrs. Fleming, with her sister and brother-in-law, moved into the trim white house next to Alloway's town hall. Soon word went around that the newcomers were not pure white. Righteous citizens gathered in front of the house, yelled imprecations, threw stones wrapped in paper saying "Get out!" Children tagged after Mrs. Fleming jeering, "Nigger woman! Nigger woman...
...ground, broke, let him down with a thump. Under the code of the Old West, when a lynching rope broke, the victim was freed. Eastland that night did not follow the Old West's code. Fifteen terrible minutes passed before a new grass rope was produced. Up went Ratliff a second time...