Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Lusaka, an astonished official commented on Hughes's threeday, thousand-mile detour: "All that trouble just to talk to a bunch of native crackpots? You must be bloody well 'round the bend, old boy...
...first, Communist authorities were inclined to put it down to college-boy pranks. But it was unsettling to see university students in Prague and Bratislava using the newly revived May festivities this year to lampoon the Communist regime-by such means as parading a trussed-up student bearing the sign ACADEMIC FREEDOM. Even more disturbing, Czech students were showing themselves heady with ideas not found in their government -approved textbooks: they began organizing groups, holding meetings, making demands of the Minister of Education. Before the authorities knew what was happening, Prague students had drawn up several resolutions demanding "democratization...
...Malcolm Joseph Rogers, 51, onetime page boy, was voted president of the New York Cotton Exchange, world's oldest and largest cotton futures market. Rogers, who still speaks with a Louisiana accent, quit school at 13 to become a page at the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. At Leon Gibert & Co., he moved from office boy to partner, represented the brokerage firm in the New York Cotton Exchange from 1933 to 1935. On his own since then, Rogers spends the full five hours of daily trading sessions on the exchange floor, handling orders in the cotton ring...
...John Dewey Allen, 58, onetime messenger at the New York Produce Exchange (oils, fats, grain, seed, feed, flour), was elected the exchange's 59th president. As a boy, Allen picked up pin money plucking pickle cucumbers on his native Long Island. Breaking in as a messenger on the exchange floor in 1914, he became floor trader for Munn & Jenkins, shipping brokers, later founded his Allen Shipping Co., worldwide middleman between shipowners and bulk cargo shippers. Allen saw duty in two world wars (from buck private to colonel), directed operations at the port of Antwerp in World...
...record runs from the simple words of a Sudetenland farm boy condemned to death because he refused to join the SS to the Latin prayers of a Jesuit like Alfred Delp, who called his prison a "kindergarten of death." Delp's greatest gratitude was that once he was able to slip out of his fetters so that he could say Mass with his hands completely free. The book ranges in spirit from the last message of the member of a Communist resistance group who said: "Mankind, I have loved you. Be vigilant," to the gentle prayers of a seaman...