Word: weren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state "orphans" selling magazines were arrested Saturday on a charge of trespassing and soliciting in the Yard dormitories. Hauled away to the Cambridge jail, one of the youths lamented, "We weren't soliciting, just making friends...
...Pound's firm belief that one should never be idle. "I've kept busy all my he said. "I might find it hard to find something to occupy myself if I weren't busy at law. I've always had something...
...might be tempted into talking by an insurance company reward of $28,000. They admitted, too, to a touch of regret over the new, vice-free state of London's streets. "Those girls always helped us," confided one Yardman. "They were our eyes and ears when we weren't around. This haul couldn't have been made in the bad old days...
...James was concerned (at a time when Americans weren't) about what place Americans should take in the civilized world. It's curious that at that time people should have thought he was highly critical of Americans. Actually, Americans carry off the moral victories in his novels...
...Washington, she said, she was warned by the Post's White House Correspondent Bob Spivack that the FBI was probably recording their conversation in Spivack's car. Installed at the Shoreham Hotel, Dolly even changed rooms, inspected the garbage can ("I found some paper and wires which weren't hitched to anything"), and was not reassured when the apprehensive Spivack took his leave of her room with a farewell addressed to the FBI microphones, "Goodbye, everybody...