Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South shivered in some of the lowest November temperatures ever recorded. Snow fell in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia: the thermometer went down to 3 in Atlanta, 19 in Baltimore, 17 in Richmond, i below in Nashville, 17 in Charleston, 2 below in Asheville, N.C. Florida's oft-bedeviled 'citrus growers toiled with smudge pots in a battle to save their perishable crops...
...home-state crowd in Charleston, W.Va. Louis Johnson said: "I have an abiding faith that West Virginians and my family will never have any occasion to be ashamed of anything I did, or did not do, as Secretary of Defense of the United States...
...your groping for an . . . adjective to describe Senator Maybank's accent [TIME, Sept. 11 ], you made a poor choice in "molasses." Since he is a Charleston aristocrat, his speech is better described as a brogue, sharp, distinct, and staccato...
After a Washington meeting several years ago, a group of airline men were scrambling to get into the same cab. One of them was Eastern Air Lines' Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Another was Delta Air Lines' President C. E. Woolman, whose web of routes from Charleston, S.C. to Fort Worth had long acted as feeder lines into Eastern Air Lines' lucrative routes from Florida to New York and New England. Would Woolman mind letting Eddie sit on his lap for a short ride? Cracked Woolman: "Well, Eddie, I've been helping support you for years...
...week began, deceptively enough, with the first solid U.S. counterattack of the war, launched with the first Sherman tanks committed to battle. In the sector south of fallen Chonan, the Reds, who had not expected U.S. tanks in action against them, were caught off balance. Lieut. Joe Griffith of Charleston, S.C. said: "The Commies took off like a bunch of scared rabbits when the tanks opened up." One Sherman ambushed an enemy T-34, crippled it at a toothsome range of only ten yards, and triumphantly towed it to headquarters for scrutiny. The Americans, who had fallen back ten miles...