Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charleston, W.Va., 20 nurses of St. Francis Hospital walked off the job because the hospital had hired its third Negro nurse. Sister Helen Clare, the hospital's administrator, stood her ground. She had sisters of the Order of St. Joseph flown in from nearby cities to take care of the hospital's 130 patients. "St. Francis Hospital will not dismiss any nurse or other employee on account of race," she said; and she had the backing of Bishop John J. Swint of Wheeling and of the local Charleston Gazette. Said the Gazette: "Nowhere in the language...
...freedom's bit, he scolded, "For God's sake, why do you dawdle in the Congress so strangely? Why do you not at once declare yourself a separate independent state?" A dynamo of energy, he drilled troops, advised Washington, arranged sound defenses for New York and Charleston...
...stringer may be a state news editor (e.g., Warner Ogden of the Knoxville News-Sentinel) or farm editor (e.g., Jack Leland of Charleston's News & Courier). Whatever his specific job, each was intensely aware of the business and farm booms still accelerating in the South. All spoke of the rising standard of living for both Negroes and whites; the continuing switchover to diversified crops, the rise in beef raising on improved grasslands, the increase of tobacco poundage on limited acreage, the tobacco industry's efforts to sell abroad and the fast growth of chemical and textile manufacturing...
Thesaurus. In Charleston, W.Va., after consulting the rule book, Western Union told Mrs. A. W. Hawkins Jr. that she must use no such insulting word as "moron" in her telegram, accepted the wire when she substituted "witling...
Saily B. Owen '54 breaks out into an exuberant Charleston at the Freshman Jubilee informal dance last night in the Eliot House Dining Hall. Yardlings and their dates look on in the background...