Word: cast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Harry Byrd's vast orchards near Berryville. In the famed Tidewater region, haze shimmered blue over sparkling crystal estuaries. In the west, the beech's first gold and the oak's first russet welcomed autumn from the Appalachian crests. In the tangled Wilderness, dusk cast early purple shadows round Lindsay Almond's family farm land...
...eastern plains, one polling place stayed open the statutory nine hours to allow the three registered voters in the area (100 sq. mi.) to cast their ballots. On the palm-fringed shores of the Indian Ocean to the south, British district officers took to dugout canoes to ferry the black metal ballot boxes up crocodile-infested rivers to obscure villages where natives would choose from such party symbols as a clock, a cockerel, a lion...
...possessed, her rank." After they were married (Anne to Prince George of Denmark, Sarah to dashing young Colonel John Churchill, future Duke of Marlborough*), Sarah, at. the Queen's suggestion, addressed her royal mistress as "Mrs. Morley," became herself "Mrs. Freeman." Their husbands, joining in this playacting, were cast as "Mr. Morley" and "Mr. Freeman...
Originally, the game here was a form of hazing, and was played as a contest between sophomores and the incoming freshmen. The ball was relatively unimportant on these occasions, which soon became known as "Bloody Mondays," and were cast into limbo...
...wasn't a new one, but it served as a tranquilizer during those long introspective sessions over cold tea at the Bick. The theory went like this: that Harvard was an alien place. staffed with immobile minds, sealed with several centuries of strict tradition, garlanded with unalterable standards, and cast in a peculiarly rigid social structure. In short, the Cambridge strata were well-rutted and different. Morris as one of the eager young men from elsewhere appeared in such a society and became immediately, and noticeably, uncomfortable...