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And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.

As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.

At that point, a tall, brown-haired man with wire-rimmed glasses came over to me, sat down, and peppered me with questions.

To Hitchcock, this is not a sweet wire from an old colleague but a condolence letter on the occasion of his own death.

On the day of the AFI dinner, Hitchcock receives a wire from Frank Capra, who is in Palm Springs.

That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire-lattices that defenced them.

They require frequent cleaning with a long wire and a bit of tow, and in some large towns there are professional pipe-cleaners.

Wire Nails, Staples, &c., are made at Nettlefold's by machinery much in advance of what can ba seen elsewhere.

I need fourteen wire ropes, all pulling in different directions, to hold me steady.

The Post Office arrangements were also of a very primitive character, nor was there any wire nearer than Thetford.