Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure of much modern fiction, the self-pitying sore head who believes that the world owes him a loving. Dave is a World War II veteran and the author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from a paternity charge lodged against him by a hay-prone hoyden. Parkman...
...appearance of complacency, of course, can mean two different things: either we're so sure of ourselves that we don't have to move, or we're so frightened we can't. With the release of the Rockefeller Report and the failure to release the Gaither Report, it would appear that the second estimate of our posture is the more realistic...
...crowds flooded into Syracuse while, according to many accounts, the Madonna continued to weep. Said a doubter: "I took the statue from the wall and found the wall behind it dry. I unscrewed the statue from its base and thoroughly dried it. Then two tears, like pearls, began to appear in the eyes of the Madonna." The Syracuse police force added its weight to the evidence. When the figure was removed to headquarters, its tears were said to have wet the tunic of the policeman who carried it. Some were caught in a vial, analyzed chemically, identified as human tears...
April. On the national scene, Sherman Adams will deny that President Eisenhower is sick. President Eisenhower will appear on a nation-wide television network to announce a new program--"This nation under God and with the aid of Sherman Adams, will see a new birth of freedom. And so, friends, every day from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. will be set aside for this nation to Pray Our Way to Power!" Pusey strikes gold. Speaking through an administrative assistant, John K. Kennedy will deny that his thesis was ghost-written. The Editors of Fortnightly challenge the executive board...
...This is the last of the 8,700 or more stories I've written to appear in the News. It must be the final one because I died yesterday...