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...main line in an attempt to derail a pay train. The attempt failed. But when a posse set out after him, George and a companion named "Dutch Charley" Burris bushwhacked two of them, killed them, and also stole their horses-about as low a crime as a man could commit. Dutch Charley was lynched almost as soon as he was caught; Big Nose George managed to survive until that night on the telegraph pole...
...Foreign Ministers did not officially commit themselves on the Schuman plan, merely reaffirmed the West's intentions of guiding West Germany back into the community of nations. The Foreign Ministers said that there would not be a peace treaty with Germany as long as the Russians held on to the country's eastern half. Meanwhile, the conference assigned experts to work out a plan to ease the technical state of war which exists between the Allies and West Germany. As many occupation controls as possible would be lifted-according to "the rate at which Germany advances toward . . . true...
...list: pledges not to accept bribes, obtain false ration cards, travel on trains without tickets, forge signatures, commit abortion or arson. The disciples also promised not to adulterate milk with water, or flour with powdered stone, and "not to tell a lie to marry off one's daughters . . . for example, not to tell about a blind girl that she has eyesight...
Smoking in the rooms, or keeping alcoholic beverages any place in the dormitories is definitely out. Dorm residents take the rap for any offense that their overnight guests might commit. Making loud or unnatural noises during quiet hours and neglecting to wait on table or take bell duty about winds up the most common offenses leading...
...four and for the next few years became, as he later put it, an "odious little prig" who would clamber aboard horse cars handing out tracts and asking people if they had been saved. Before long he lost his faith; never again would he so thoroughly commit his emotions to an interest outside himself...