Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before he gathered most of his clan (5 children, 15 grandchildren) at his Long Island home for his 70th birthday party, the unblinking beacon of U.S. Socialism, Norman Thomas, loosed a flood of thoughts and recollections for veteran New York Timesman A. H. Raskin. No longer a perennial also-ran (six defeats) for the U.S. presidency, roving Lecturer-Writer-Committeeman Thomas had lost none of his tongue's facile sharpness. Eying the rigors of a world toying with the idea of "peaceful coexistence" (he calls it "competitive coexistence"), Thomas placed his bet on the West: "Our democracy...
...small girl in grey got out, looked wistfully around, and was just stepping back in when an alert Pudding grecter grabbed her and began bubbling incomprehensibly in a Beacon Hill accent. Wiping bits of moisture from her face, she turned to a tramp who was lounging on the steps and cried, "Sitting around? Mercy! I thought you boys studied all the time!" She dashed in and I followed, but a policeman turned me away and I had to climb in a window. I ran around to the front door and asked the cop if I could...
...Republicans are also worried about their visitors and have put in a check system that would make the FBI blush. Inside their building at 8 Beacon Street they had the entire seventh floor blocked into special rooms, one for each type of guest. Their elevator operator wore a large red, white, and blue button that announced "I Like Everybody...
...found in the files when we came to Washington . . ." That night he huddled with Newspaper Publisher John S. Knight, argued that Knight should throw his Chicago Daily News behind the candidacy of Illinois' Joe Meek. All he got was a maybe, but Knight promised to use his Akron Beacon Journal to support Ohio Senatorial Candidate George Bender...
...Ph.D. three years later, and the academic bustle hasn't let up yet. His daughter has finished Bryn Mawr; his son, graduated from Harvard last year, and he and his wife, whom he married after his junior year at College, have settled down as Beacon Street Bostonians...