Word: wherein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boards for a Bed. "I tried then to get to know something of the place wherein I was. I was already aware of much dampness and of a smell of human excrement. Guided by my nose, I drew as far away as possible from the place which I later found out was where the drains of five lavatories of the guards on five floors above me emptied themselves...
Paradise, Canto XXVII, wherein St. Peter states that his successor (Boniface VIII) has turned the Church into a sewer choked with blood. He also quoted from Guicciardini, Carducci and other poets to show that "during 20 centuries, free-thinking men have often had occasion to think of Popes as guilty of other men's blood." Cried he: "So, do you want to send Dante to jail?" After 50 minutes' recess, the court found Laura Diaz guilty, sentenced her to eight months' imprisonment, suspended the sentence on a surety of good conduct...
...paralyzing effect of the 'passive U.S. attitude' is being felt everywhere, at home, and among our allies, but until this issue of TIME, there had been no clear-cut explanation of why the paralysis existed. Both American and U.N. governing circles can now see wherein the paralysis has germinated."-Warren Cheney of Flushing...
...Trees stinks except I did not write Men Without Women and The Sun Also Rises and therefore, by Mr. Faulkner's logic, I have nothing to stand on while I throw such a spitball. Would a few well-placed spitballs have saved Hemingway from the pitfall of delusion wherein he has knocked out Flaubert and others? If Hemingway does not need defending, as Mr. Faulkner asserts, why did Mr. Waugh and Mr. Faulkner bother? Is it that they are trusting to be his seconds when he gets into the ring with Shakespeare...
...Discovering wherein federal policies create or intensify problems, and what opportunities the federal government...