Word: beulah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indiana University, a B is a Beulah...
Waiting for Beulah. Encouraged by the results, the Weather Bureau last year joined forces with the Navy in Project Stormfury, an experiment to determine if large-scale, continuous seeding could kill a hurricane early in its career. But for all its grand plans, Stormfury's experimental attack is highly restricted by the fear that something may go wrong. In 1947 the Navy seeded a hurricane far out in the Atlantic, then watched in embarrassed amazement as the storm turned abruptly and careened in a devastating swath through Savannah, Ga. Though no one could prove that seeding caused the course...
Armed with 20,000 books, the volunteers hold classes for four hours a day at seven makeshift centers around the county. In Farmville, classes fill the pews of Beulah A.M.E. Church and the First Baptist Church. In Levi, the teachers swept the broken glass out of an abandoned schoolhouse and set up shop. In Hampden-Sydney, they teach in a fly-swept Sunday school with chickens scratching in the dust outside. And the kids, some of them walking three miles, have flocked to school in such numbers that teachers had to cut off enrollment...
...Ethiopia, two California schoolteachers-Beulah Bartlett, 65, and Blythe Monroe, 66-moved in on an abandoned schoolhouse, whitewashed it themselves, turned it into an excellent training school for native teachers. The spinster pair earned a special audience from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, and Beulah said after the meeting, "Oh, we think he's just the sweetest little man in the world." Beyond Beulah and Blythe, the Peace Corps' 276 schoolteachers in Ethiopia have caused a remarkable change. Peace Corps teachers constitute half the faculty of every high school outside Addis Ababa. Since they bolstered Ethiopia...
Died. Louise Beavers, 60, Ohio-born cinemactress, stereotype of a jolly Southern mammy as the screen's Aunt Delilah and TV's Beulah, though she neither liked nor knew how to make flapjacks; of diabetes; in Hollywood, Calif...