Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...patient, kindly voice, Sir Benegal said: "The events of the past two days have filled all of us with the gravest anxiety as to the near future. Many see in them the beginning of a third world war, with all its horrors." The crowded chamber was very still. Then Sir Benegal recognized Warren Austin...
...inevitable, were U.S. plans and arms ready to meet such an attack? Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson had said expansively that if the Russians attacked at "four in the morning, the U.S. would be ready by five. Now, only "half a little country had attacked, and it was well past five...
...years to get from Alabama to the North. His long trip began on a spring day in 1931, when he and eight companions were yanked off a freight train at Paint Rock, Ala., accused of raping two white girls who turned out to be common tramps. It carried him past the shadow of the electric chair three times, through the highest courts of the land and deep into the hard, rotten heart of the Alabama penal system. But in July 1948, Haywood Patterson finally made it. He escaped from Alabama's Kilby prison, crossed the Mason-Dixon line...
...Connecticut's colonial past, Mrs. Rollo and her lawyers extracted a Dickensian statute known as the Body Execution Law. Under that law, she had Mrs. Fox locked up in New Haven County jail to serve one day for every unpaid dollar of the judgment; she had to pay $10 a week to the county for the prisoner's room & board. Mrs. Rollo was losing money on it, but that didn't stop her. She wasn't moved by the sight of Mrs. Fox's husband trying to take care of the Foxes' three young...
Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell admitted that he uses up more typewriter ribbon as he grows older, and that he sometimes sits at the typewriter and stares at it for three days without writing a word: "For the past two years I've been doing the same things in the same manner. I'm afraid...