Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...days later, Charleston County detectives picked up two sullen, slack-jawed young ex-convicts named LeRoy Parker and James Lawing in a highway diner near Charleston. It took an all-white jury only 4½ hours to find both guilty of murder. Because the jury recommended mercy, the convicts were sentenced to life imprisonment...
...help winning-if he just stayed out of trouble. But in the eighth round Small let go a desperation right and it crashed flush on Roach's jaw. It ripped the flesh inside his mouth and blood gushed from his lips. Roach's legs buckled; staggering, slack-jawed and glassy-eyed, he hung...
Unlike Christmas cards, which everyone knows were instigated by a Swiss job printer in 1856 to tide him over the slack season, Valentine's day cards can be traced back to historical origins. Specifically, they come from the ancient Roman Feast of the Lupercalia where youth men and women put cards with their names on them into a large box, and couples were paired by chance drawings. The pairings lasted all year, which clearly shows that the Romans knew how to make more of a good thing than...