Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iowa's Governor Leo Hoegh rattled off a memorized greeting in Russian, and one delegate delivered a rehearsed speech in English: "Hello, my friends. I'm glad to see you. Here we are. Goodbye." At a Cedar Rapids luncheon, the Russian visitors almost jumped out of their shoes when 275 lowans, singing the Corn Song, suddenly raised their arms - a gesture resembling the party salute - to illustrate the song's last line: "That's where the tall corn grows!" Later the Russians learned the words, sang it themselves with gestures (but no clenched fist...
...terrified caretaker saw them: 30 or 40 swarthy, roughly dressed men carrying crowbars and bottles of gasoline. While dust still hung over the nearby Plaza de Mayo, bombed a few hours earlier, the men marched into the church. Within minutes, flames were consuming San Ignacio's great cedar altar and its historic, Indian-carved pulpit. At the same time, similar bands of men touched off other important churches. The lofty dome of the Basilica of San Francisco glowed red. Flames danced in the windows of the archbishop's palace next to the Metropolitan Cathedral (which was spared...
...story for John Stenhouse or the 9,000 people of Mercer Island, a pleasant place (connected to Seattle by a mile-long floating bridge) where he settled with his wife and two daughters in 1951. There had ended his groping for roots. He built a simple, cedar-sided house among the madrona trees, opened an insurance agency in the business district. He was ending his second year in the unpaid and honored job of school-board chairman (supervising the island's three schools, with 52 teachers and 1,350 pupils) when the story of his Communist past broke...
...Moreell, who will serve as chairman of the Pittsburgh Experiment's board of trustees, announced that the campaign will be guided by a full-time executive director, the Rev. William H. Cohea Jr., graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and former pastor of the Daniels Park Presbyterian Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...less jaded observers the explosion had authority. Small though it was, the blast lit up predawn Los Angeles 250 air miles away. It rattled through Las Vegas, Nev. 75 miles away, rumbled on through St. George, Utah 135 miles to the East, and sounded like distant war drums in Cedar City, Utah 175 miles from the blast. Some in Los Angeles claimed to hear the distant drums 20 minutes after the flash...