Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned up evidence that, during the evangelist's absence, a cottage at Carmel, Calif, had been occupied for ten days by Kenneth Ormiston, the former Temple radioman (who was separated from his wife), and a lady with thick ankles and coils of auburn hair who strongly resembled Aimee. Back home at the Temple, Aimee met the attack of the lawmen by crying that it was simply another battle in "the age-old fight between the children of light and the people of darkness." But the outraged evangelist was formally charged with "conspiracy to com mit acts injurious to public...
...enemy through the gizzard and continues to thrive. His bosses keep on hoping, when he is ordered to blow up an Austrian powder store and burn the fodder of the enemy cavalry. Instead of perishing superbly in the attempt, Angelo just does the job very efficiently-and comes prancing back for more, as insatiable for adventure as Don Quixote, as indestructible as the comic hero of an old one-reeler...
...there is a fierce, unfazed and unfaded old matriarch brimming with hard-won wisdom, and a willowy, willful girl sorely in need of it. The matriarch, in this case, has broken her hip and may never ride to the hounds again, so she has plenty of time to look back at her own willowy and willful stage. Should she have deserted her husband to run off with worthless Gerald? Should she have abandoned her illegitimate daughter to be brought up by a Belgian family? No, evidently, to the second question; the girl grew up to become the mistress...
...Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A deep-diving visit to wrecked ships that have littered the ocean floor off France's south coast from as far back...
...Eastern League race shapes up as a repetition of the past two years, with no one likely to offer the Crimson and Yale much competition. The Elis, although they will have Dell, Gene Scott and Wallace back, lose Tom Freiberg, Jon Clark, and Sandy Wiener (two, three and five). They have one excellent freshman prospect in Mike Neely...