Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocks of newspaper expenses. Publishers are also installing expensive color-printing equipment that enables them to earn more money from advertisers for the same amount of newsprint. But improvements run high. "I bought the Free Press [for $3,200,000]," says Publisher John Knight, who controls the Akron Beacon-Journal...
...Lone Beacon. At 0050, air-ground reported: "Banjo Six is going in."Tracers arched over the drop zone. On Banjo Six's second pass, there were more enemy tracers and white bursts of flak following the plane. Banjo Six reported one hit but no casualties. At 0103, a mortar flare bloomed over the drop zone and revealed, for an elusive moment, the trenches and scarred earth below. Then mortar shells burst in angry red balls across the drop zone. For the paratroopers that was the toughest drop of the night...
...being polite." Two hours later, it was time for us to head back to Hanoi, and Sergeant K. radioed brief word down to the defenders of Dienbienphu: "End for me. See you tomorrow." As Luciole turned homeward, the drop-zone lights blinked out save for one lone navigation beacon in the dark, a bright symbol of the garrison's famous stand...
...entering the race in the first place. He made a casual statement last autumn that he might like to run, and since then, he says, no one has let him forget it. As a Brookline resident, however, he remembers "watching the race as a little boy on Beacon St., and always wanting...
...Lincoln Tunnel makes a dime every time a car goes through. How much money do you think Lamont's front door makes every morning? And who gets it? Deserving young athletes? Oh, no. That blonde in the front office, my fines alone paid for all the furniture in her Beacon Street apartment...