Word: handed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What rice paddy would you be in today? Sure, we'd all have liked to pursued careers, but there was this little war whose demands for cannon fodder grew and grew, whose uselessness split up families bitterly, and whose deadly jaws opened wide for us, sheepskins in hand...
...fore that was a adjunct to Stonewall Jackson's third cavalry, simply because he could make more money. After Jackson's death, he killed a fellow officer in a quarrel; William Bell was ordered to be shot by his commander-in-chief, in a letter in Lee's own hand, January 1, 1864, in a camp outside Lexington. Instead, he escaped by knifing his guard and lived to greatly approve of the Radical Republicans and American expansion. He named his son Seward Alaska Bell after that Secretary of State and his purchase of territory from the Russians, and died...
...they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage as part of the deal, which Osborne gave, laughing that his clerk would be so bold. The girl, Tora Lucille, 30 years younger than her fiance, educated at Agnes Scott in Atlanta and just back from a tour of Europe, had other ideas; after bearing Laskey...
...after Zhou Enlai. The opening to the West had been legitimized while Mao was still alive as "the revolutionary line of chairman Mao," but after his death a brief struggle broke out between his widow and three of her more radical cohorts ("the gang of four") on the one hand and the Party hierarchy whom they deposed in the Cultural Revolution...
...also a "modern Mormon matron" who, while not having been excommunicated or agreeing with Mrs. Johnson about the ERA, has felt the heavy hand, with which church leaders control the members. I do not think of the Mormon leadership as a particularly savage group. I would rather classify their attitude as plain run-of-the-mill misogyny...