Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the dangers of too much Fish support became noticeable around election time, Mrs. St. George declared: "Nobody can pin a Fish label on me. Ham Fish would support a wooden Indian against Bennet." Then she went on to carry all but one of her counties...
...crude wooden hut 20 miles from Paris, agents of the Paris police studied a fantastic corpse. It was the bloated body of a white man, but it had turned a ghastly, gleaming black. On each side of the torso, from rib to groin, the flesh had apparently been burned by a powerful chemical...
...glumly on a bare wooden platform while "Pete" Green and kinky-haired Senator C. Wayland Brooks paid him fancy tribute. He mopped streams of perspiration from his brow, went under the grandstand for a cold bottle of pop. Then he spoke...
...sharp sun drove a few voters to the shady courthouse lawn and its weathered wooden bench inscribed "Compliments of Paul Cantrell." But Sheriff Pat Mansfield, with a gold-plated badge glittering on his sports shirt, looked coolly confident in a knot of armed deputies. This was the day that Sheriff Mansfield and State Senator Cantrell, the iron-fisted bosses of McMinn County, had arranged to trade offices...
...love conquer shady politicking? To this burning question, Mr. Ace's plodding plot finally provides a predictable answer (yes)-after considerable stilted dialogue and wooden acting...