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Both statements have lisped from the pale, thin lips of Bee County's Sheriff Robert Vail Ennis. And both statements have been roughly true. Day or night a lady could sashay unmenaced up Beeville's streets, past the cream stuccoed Kohler Hotel, the Blue Bonnet Café, and the two-story buff brick jail where Sheriff Ennis lives with his wife and daughter and keeps evildoers under lock...
...suit for $40,000 in Wayne County Common Pleas Court against the Bishop and his elders and asked the court also to make the elders call off the "shun." Last week in Wooster, a jury of nine men and three women, none of them Amish, listened sympathetically as the thin-faced, round-bearded Yoder retailed his woes...
...said confidently the day before. But for once the Queen Mary's well-disciplined crew paid no heed to their commander's orders. In a strike meeting in a drafty wharfside shed, they were listening instead to the passionate oratory of a thin, febrile man in a cheap blue raincoat and a dirty white shirt...
...sell some clothes and family possessions to buy food on the black market, he replied: "How can one who judges others do any black marketing?" When his father sent extra food from Kyushu island, he turned it all over to his family. He and his wife subsisted, precariously, on thin soup and corn meal gruel. Their food rations went to their two young sons...
This depth also gives Harry some of his troubles. Every time another post gets a little too thin, Jacunski find one of his ends playing fullback or center...