Word: bom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month apartment. She gave callers the once-over through a peephole in the front door, although she chattered loudly and publicly over the pay telephone in the lobby. Curiously, the Dennises had no telephone. Now no longer active in the party, she brought up their second baby, Gene (bom in 1942), and prepared large meals for her chubby husband. The Dennises were scarcely noticed by the neighbors until the congressional inquiry disclosed his identity...
...train over the scarred hills to the shrine-church of Congonhas do Campo. Last week, as they had for a century and a half, some 200,000 Brazilian peasants made the pilgrimage to kiss the sacred image of the Dead Christ in Aleijadinho's Church of the Bom Jesus...
...Kiss for Bom Jesús. Inside, they moved forward past the gold and white side altars, past the two ornamented Aleijadinho pulpits. The only sound was the soft scuffing of sandaled feet. Reaching the altar, the pilgrims handed their candles to a priest, kissed the recumbent image of Bom Jesús, dropped their offerings in a box beside the altar. Some paused to honor the old tradition of "measuring" the figure with a piece of white binding tape that would later hang in their huts as a souvenir. Then they went back to the dusty hill towns that...
Slums & Strikes. He was bom on Dec. 17, 1874 in Berlin, Ontario, a town which later, in the fever of World War I, changed its name to Kitchener. His first political asset was the endowment of a historic name. Grandfather William Lyon Mackenzie, a stern and pious man who fled at 25 from awful poverty in his native Scotland, was a journalist, politician and rebel. He had led an armed rebellion in 1837 against an aristocratic oligarchy which was throttling representative government in what is now Ontario. The uprising was short-lived and forced him into exile, but it earned...
G.B.S. was harping on a favorite string. He had promised to will $80,000 to anyone with a plan to make English "economic." But lately he had been appalled anew at the discovery that he could write "bomb" only 18 times a minute and "bom" 23 times. Stormed Shaw: "The extra sign is entirely senseless, it not only wastes the writer's time, but suggests an absurd mispronunciation, as if the word 'gun' were to be spelt 'gung...