Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the war, when Ben Kuroki helped his father raise sugar beets and seed potatoes on a farm in Hershey, Neb. (pop. 487), nobody paid much attention to the color of Ben's skin. The day after Pearl Harbor, Kuroki enlisted. On the train to camp, he heard for the first time what became an agonizingly familiar question: "What's that Jap doing in the Army?" To answer it, Japanese-American Ben Kuroki volunteered as an Air Force gunner...
...Kuroki flew 28 missions more, including strikes on Tokyo and Yokohama ("my mother's home town"); he was the first Nisei to win a D.F.C. in the Pacific. Back home again, Kuroki assigned himself a "59th mission": a quiet, sense-making fight against race prejudice in the U.S. Ben decided that the best way to carry on his fight was to set up in business as the editor of a country weekly in his native Nebraska. He enrolled in the University of Nebraska's School of Journalism under the G.I. bill. This week Kuroki's class will...
...firmer footing for a new rise. Such a shakeout might well come, simply because enough people think it will and, by selling in preparation for the shakeout, cause it to happen. But there was no reason that it had to happen. "This market," chirpily insisted Wall Street Analyst Ben Davis, "is a one-way street, which will run without appreciable reaction up to the dead-end marker...
...there were some complaints. Many citizens concluded that the census questions were either too general or subject to too much loose interpretation. Novelist Ben Ames (Leave Her to Heaven) Williams took delight in answering with literal honesty, told the census taker he had been last employed in 1912, had never finished high school (he had studied under a tutor) and that, counting meditation, he had toiled 112 hours the previous week...
...Governor Eugene Charles. "I bring you a schoolboy," said Khai Dinh. "Make of him what you will." Three years later, Khai Dinh died. He was buried in a splendid mausoleum, at Hué; at the foot of his tomb lay his prized French decorations, toothbrush, Thermos bottles and "Big Ben" alarm clock. Bao Dai, who had come 'home for the funeral, was crowned the 13th sovereign of the Nguyen (pronounced New Inn) dynasty. He turned the throne over to a regent, and hurried back to Paris...