Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speculative plans of the potential buyer, Frank Fodera, call for an apartment building which would still preserve the "historical" exterior--as its lobby. When those plans were revealed in late January, "Save the Chapel" signs went up in church windows and a bevy of petitions, meetings and lawsuits sprung out of the surrounding community...
That chance soon materialized, as Wyant went up 14-9 and came up with match point, then rolled over Bell 3-0 (15-8, 15-7, 15-10) before falling to Yick...
John King grew up among blacks and went to school with them. (The black jury foreman was a classmate at Jasper High School.) King's life took a bad turn after his junior year of high school, when he was arrested for burglary--along with Shawn Berry, one of the two men with him in the pickup last June. The two were sent to boot camp together. Upon release, however, King violated probation and was given an eight-year prison term in July...
...revolutionary, even though the verdict was not surprising for the apartheid South. Emmett's great-uncle Mose Wright testified against Bryant and Milam, a black man pointing out white men as the murderers of a black child. After his testimony, Wright fled Mississippi for his life. Bryant and Milam went on with theirs, acquitted of any crime. But the rest of the country looked at Mississippi justice and shuddered. America had seen a mother's sorrow. Mamie Till Mobley had shipped her son's battered body back to Chicago and allowed his open coffin to be put on display...
...went out to the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, MO., last week for the opening of an exhibition called "TIME and the Presidency," which will tour the U.S. over the next two years. It features great photos and TIME covers of Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, along with commentary by our longtime columnist Hugh Sidey...