Word: blacksmiths
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...with searchlights a climber's torn coat. Near by, the rescuers found the first body, that of a college football star, Humberto Areizaga. As they dug deeper they were horrified to hear muffled voices beneath them. Leonor Colin, a 21-year-old student, and Francisco Meneses, a husky blacksmith, were buried under huge blocks of ice. Rescuers chopped futilely with their alpine ice axes. "Where is my mother? I want to see her again," the girl sobbed just before she died. Soon afterwards, the blacksmith died and the dark mountain was quiet-except for the chip-chip...
Birth of a Legend. "What a character!" sighed his wife Rachele, when she heard of her Benito's sudden rise to power. Most Italians echoed her words, wondered what sort of oddity their new ruler was. They knew he was the son of a Romagna blacksmith and had come up the hard way, going to jail for his political activities, suffering poverty in Switzerland. They knew little of his real character-e.g., that he could be bullied by anyone who took the trouble. They knew still less of his chronic ailments (syphilis, stomach ulcers) and his antipathy...
...track blacksmith examines the Dancer's aluminum racing shoes (size 6, next to largest), replaces a few questionable nails...
...Delays. In Los Angeles, retired Blacksmith Abraham Jones won an annulment of his marriage when he complained that his wife Amelia "had no love for me," once took three days to cook a chicken...
Saleswoman, Horsewoman. The new Senator is a remarkable woman. Married at 19 to a blacksmith, she was widowed at 32 with three small sons. To support them, she became a traveling saleswoman, for more than four years fought her way over muddy and rutted Nebraska country roads selling bakery supplies. In 1928, she remarried, and moved on to her husband's Bar 99 ranch in the Nebraska sandhills. She was told then that grass and trees would not grow in the sand, but her sprawling white ranch house now stands in a grove of hackberry and willow trees...