Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MARY C. HAMILTON Strykersville...
...C. DORSEN Penfield...
...bright, waxing moon rode through the racing cumulus clouds above Florida's Cape Canaveral. At the floodlit launching pad, a gangling service structure, standing like a jeweled skyscraper, nestled against the U.S. Army's Jupiter-C rocket. A homely creature it was, its streamlined shell topped with a bucketlike piece and a long, thin, cylindrical nose. This was the Explorer, the Promethean gift that the U.S. aimed to fling against the invisible doors of space...
...roads and in terms of its heavy and unprofitable passenger traffic one of the least desirable. But Young talked as if his mere presence would banish trouble and nurture prosperity. For a while, it seemed as if Young would repeat the success he had with the coal-hauling C. & 0. The Central went on a $2 annual dividend basis; costs were cut and income boosted. Central's stock shot up from 23 to 49½; Young confidently predicted that it would go to 100, and urged his friends to get in while the getting was good...
...gypsy on her mother's side, she is also a Parliamentarian on various other sides, while Yoben is a Royalist. Enter, inevitably, Oliver Cromwell, whom Novelist Goudge feels she knows intimately, including his conversation. "My lord, we must act at once!" cries "Old Noll" Cromwell to his C. in C., the Earl of Essex. "Let us do nothing hastily, Colonel Cromwell," answers the slower-moving peer, then adds: "Decisive victory now would prevent incalculable suffering." Probably, muses one character, they are saying the same thing in the enemy camp-and sure enough King Charles had told his aide, Lord...