Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the balloting began, America was heard and seen in microcosm. No one could hear the roll call of the states without feeling, consciously or not, that this was poetry, and of an epic sort: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado . . . Kansas, Kentucky and Maine . . . Nebraska, Ohio, the Dakotas . . . Vermont and Wisconsin and Wyoming. The voices from the floor were rich with the flavor of the broad land. They spoke with local pride: Georgia, the empire state of the South . . . the great, free state of Maryland . . . Virginia, the cradle of democracy . . . Hawaii, standing on the threshold of statehood...
...Holding a 50-year-old pistol in both hands to steady it, Ezekiel Brown, 74, of Colorado Springs, Colo. fired two slugs into a neighbor (after a back-fence quarrel) but failed to kill him. In jail the creaky gunman bitterly told police: "My eyesight ain't what it used...
...Congress was no longer listening to General Marshall with its old respect. Said Colorado's Eugene Milliken, "He's gotten into the habit of delivering ultimatums to Congress. He takes the same attitude toward Congress as he would to a striker who fails to put the proper polish on his boots...
...Colorado...
Rudolph C. Doenges, Colorado Springs...