Word: woodstock
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...slush is yet dry on Winter's testament familiar sounds are oozing up from the Southland, the crack of a bat against the horsehide and the peck of a finger against the old Woodstock. Spring baseball is back. Radiant in their new sport shirts, the scribes are again squeezing the grapefruit league for every drop...
...Roebuck went on to develop the Woodstock typewriter, and later started his own movie projector company, sold out for $150,000 but lost his money in Florida real estate. He returned to Sears in 1933, at $5,000 a year, and toured the nation as a glorified publicity man until 1940, when he retired to California. He died, eight years later...
Hiss was referring to damaging evidence that had corroborated Chambers' accusation: copies of secret State Department papers typed on an old Woodstock typewriter that the defense agreed had once belonged in the Hiss household. During his two trials Hiss denied any responsibility for copying the documents, but his attorney reluctantly conceded that they had somehow been typed on the Woodstock...
...week lawyers for Hiss filed a formal motion for a new trial. They are ready, they told the court, to demonstrate a technique of "forgery by typewriter." A "typewriter engineer" has built them a machine that they are sure can turn out documents indistinguishable from those typed on the Woodstock introduced in evidence. And if this is true, they argue, it is possible that the typewriter at the trial was a fake. Their story assumes that somebody had a typewriter built exactly like one formerly owned by Hiss and that this machine was then smuggled into the place where Hiss...
...Woodstock: 8 inches wet surface. None to poor, upper and lower...