Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Marines left, Sandino came down from the mountains to make peace with Moncada's successor, President Juan Bautista Sacasa. Sacasa, worried about Tacho's growing power, decided to cultivate Sandino as a counterforce. On the night of Feb. 21, 1934, he asked him to dinner in the presidential palace overlooking Managua. Somoza spent the evening at a party in the Guardia's barracks...
...Twice the U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua, first in 1912 for a stay that lasted until 1925. In 1927 they came back again for six years more...
...Oxford, Miss.): " 'Why look here,' they'll say, 'Bill Faulkner's gone and got his picture in the New York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring I've made a million dollars . . ." The old days, before success came, sometimes look pretty good to Faulkner: "I was a free man. Had one pair of pants, one pair of shoes, and an old trench coat with a pocket big enough for a whiskey bottle; Now I get stacks of letters, asking what I eat for breakfast, and what about curves...
...editorial writers and syndicated columnists, who had turned in their regular Wednesday stints in advance, had struck the same note. Therefore, on election night, from London's Fleet Street to San Francisco's Market Street, newspaper hellboxes overflowed with type that was hastily dumped as the returns came in. (One groundless gossip-columnist report: that LIFE had to junk an issue with Dewey on the cover.) Not all caught themselves in time...
From the grave of the Literary Digest, whose back was broken by its 1936 straw vote,* came a sepulchral horselaugh last week. "Nothing malicious, mind you," said ex-Digest Editor Wilfred J. Funk, now a Manhattan book publisher, "but I get a very good chuckle out of this...