Word: night
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rear bedroom to wake her brother. Just as he stepped out of bed, the whole house came apart in a blasting crash. Mary Jo and Mrs. Miller were only slightly bruised; Brother J. H. was hit on the head by a falling timber. Outside, in the Texas summer night, a car drove away...
...Mary Jo; Thelma Powell, buxom waitress, once the object of his affections; his sisters and his friends. Seven of them gave him a perfect alibi: that he was 250 miles from the explosion scene at the time. But careful detective work placed his car near the Miller house that night; established his purchase of a case of dynamite in March 1938 in Shreveport, La.; proved by dust analysis that dynamite had been carried in one of Wyatt's suitcases found...
Once, he said, they went back to a rendezvous to get some pillows left there on a previous tryst. "When I returned to the car she had stripped off her clothing ... it was a beautiful moonlit night...
...night Ben brought home a book of tickets for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. He told Frances, his daughter, to pick one, and they scraped together $2.50 to pay for it, wrote on it, "Just Must Win." Plump, 40-year-old Pearl prayed to God that they might...
...Same night in Manhattan, Ohio's Governor John William Bricker further disclaimed responsibility for Cleveland's relief crisis (TIME, Dec. 4, et seq.). It was not a yen to finish his year with a balanced budget, but Democratic manipulations in WPA and lackadaisical local administrators that were chiefly to blame, said Republican Bricker. Lest anybody think he was still dark-horsing around for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination, he added: "In 1940, I'll be a candidate for Governor of Ohio-absolutely...