Word: watermelon
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...clock the sky was dove grey. The crowd grew impatient, began to yip: "Let's go! Bring him out!" At 5:20 a.m. Bethea, his stomach bulging with chicken, pork chops and watermelon, was pushed through the crowd to the base of the platform. "I don't like to die with my shoes on." he said, sitting down on the bottom step and taking them off. Up the 13 steps to the platform he walked. Then for the first time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead...
...their enormous pride in Texas' bigness-the superlatives they can use in describing its vast distances, the size of its ranches, the statistics of its cotton, oil and cattle production, even the dimensions of its world's record grapefruit (26-in. circumference) and world's record watermelon (183 lb.). Another reason is Texans' fierce pride in their past, in the heritage of Austin, Travis, Houston and other heroes who tore away from Mexico, a century ago this year, the land which was to become more than one-twelfth...
...them understand what I was after, but they treated me all right. I didn't have to do a lick of work [Accepting a cigaret] I must have even backslid a little. . . . I'm so happy about going home that I feel like a coon in a watermelon patch...
...Burbank of Russia," creator of 300 new varieties of plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...
...other trying to arrange a settlement. At the end of the first day General Johnson held up his thumb and forefinger with only a hypothetical peanut between and reported, ''They are just that far apart." At the end of the second day the peanut had become a watermelon...