Word: barne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through his annual fund appeal for Catholic Charities. Born in Whitman, Mass., moonfaced, articulate Frank Spellman ran errands for his father's grocery, played sandlot baseball, boxed in a village barn, became an altar boy at the local church. After graduating from Fordham University ('11), he studied for the priesthood at Rome's North American College. He served in the Boston archdiocese before the Vatican summoned him in 1925. As first U.S.-born staff member of the State Secretariate...
...Thruston Morton, 51, was elected, summoned to make his maiden speech. Said the new boss from the Bluegrass: "In 1960 we are going to have proven champions carrying our banner. We are going to have proven stake winners. There'll be no selling platers in our barn...
...them out of the doldrums is a two-story pipe organ in each and every farmhouse. Then they can bat out Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring to their heart's content, without the annoying interruption of having to run out to the barn and pull switches for ten minutes...
...drive to bewitch and bother the West, the Kremlin is moving in more directions at once than fire in a hay barn. The latest Soviet maneuver: a determined trafficking with Western Europe's opposition Socialists...
...during World War II, and the cost of rehabilitation was estimated at $80,000. The aging, widowed Madame Pierre Savoye decided not to spend the money, never moved back. Unlivable in its dilapidated condition, the machine for living became a machine for farming. It was turned into a hay barn. Today, fruit crates are piled high, inside and out; rotting pears, onions and apples are strewn throughout its spaces...