Word: wey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeply entrenched in the South. This assessment comes from one of the more knowing observers of the area: Erskine Caldwell, who immortalized the mores of Dixie in such bestselling novels as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. In a new book of factual reporting called Deep South (Wey-bright & Talley; $6.50), Caldwell gives eyewitness testimony that the basic beliefs of many Southern churches have been left untouched by the changes affecting the rest of U.S. Christianity...
...went down with John to visit her. It was a blowy, gusty sort of day, and when I asked them what they wanted to do, they chose the beach. It was deserted; we improvised a shelter, then we splashed into the wild sea. Or evenings, boating on the Wey River, those two would literally fight for the privilege of taking the oars. To this day, Julie is naturally a country girl. There is nothing she likes better than to get down here, tramping about, shedding it all, serving tea with the local ladies at a cricket match...
That January crisis was settled by a compromise which provided, among other things, for the appointment of the President's choice, General Aguiyi-Ironsi, as commanding officer of the army; the appointment of the Prime Minister's choice, Admiral Wey, as commodore of the navy; the holding of "free and fair" elections in the Western region before the end of August; and before the year was out, the drafting of a new Federal Constitution...