Word: beading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine line separating eccentricity from madness. When Steed went to see Northcliffe in Paris in the spring of 1922, he found him in bed, gabbling excitedly of plots on his life. He had a loaded pistol in one hand and a "book of piety" in the other, drew a bead on a dressing gown hanging on the door under the impression that an intruder had entered the room. He made Steed accompany him to Southern France, where hotel employees lined up to honor the visiting millionaire, only to be driven away by his insults. After Steed warned the editors...
...last night on earth for Pfc. Marvin Brown, 20, of Greenstown, Ind., who had joined the 45th just two days before the division left Japan for Korea. When the Chinese attacked, he scrambled for a low dike. He was up and drawing a bead on enemy grenade throwers when a burp gun got him across the chest. His comrades saw him slumped against the dike with his head showing, then silhouetted in the brief red glare of a grenade. When they reached him, he was dead...
...there still time for a renaissance of learning in the U.S., or have we "progressed" with Dewey too far into the educational dark ages? If so, our educators can doubtless console themselves with the thought that advanced bead-stringing will prove functional in a society of cave dwellers...
...Working 18-hour days (his smile was as big at 11 p.m. as it was at 6 a.m.), the Senator from Ohio held press conferences before breakfast, met coveys of politicians, students, businessmen and farmers, ate fried chicken at box suppers, and all the while held a steady bead on his main target: the Truman Administration...
...tired old saws elicited by your Nov. 19 readers (Protestant) concerning the appointment of Mark Clark as Ambassador to Rome (Catholic) have caused me to draw a bead of indignant ire on them...