Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They Meant Business. The defendants-all but three of them Greenville taxi drivers-seemed ill at ease. Few wore coats or ties; many chewed gum incessantly. Some were accompanied by their wives (in South Carolina, a man on trial for a capital crime is entitled to have his wife with...
...gone to sleep; he had a vague memory of terror, of feeling his car plunge through a fence and sail out into the gulley. He twisted on the hard ground until his back was raw and his wounded hand throbbed with pain. Then he thought of his wife, Mae, at home in Richmond, and he lay still and wept...
...anyhow. It seemed odd. He was only 26. He had been in the Navy during the war (and spent 36 hours on a raft after his ship was torpedoed). He had a good job in a Standard Oil Co. paraffin plant in Oakland. He scratched a note to his wife on the fender: "Don't forget I love...
...part pro-Communist propaganda and one part inevitable misunderstanding of a very different way of life. Americans thought something like this: "Chinese Communists are extremists, no doubt, but they have had more provocation than Communists in other countries. Chiang Kai-shek may be all right (certainly that good-looking wife of his is) but Chiang is surrounded by reactionary politicians...
...niceties of cheng, he likes to discourse on the threefold appeal of Chinese cuisine-color, for the eye; smell, for the nostrils; taste, for the tongue. He is getting plump, is 20 pounds heavier than when he battled Communists. He is a family man. Recently, while his hospitable, bespectacled wife and four sprouting children looked on, Chen displayed a bit of simple Western technology he had learned. Puffing a bit, he showed them how to roller-skate on shiny contraptions just arrived from...