Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Himself a little man, born at Scylla, not far from mythical Charybdis, in the Straits of Messina, he had long tossed between the rock of poverty and the whirlpool of Fascist repression. Until the blackshirts fell, he had eked out an existence as a statistician. Then, on Columbus Day, 1944, he had rediscovered America for his countrymen...
...they perish," the Arabs' retort, "Arabs want peace"; a blurb for Birobidjan, Russia's-"Pearl of the Far East" for Jews; "An open letter to Congress," by Sponsors of Government Action against Cancer; "Shall we help the Communists to crucify Christian Spain?" by the Missouri Knights of Columbus...
Signs of Urgency. After his Columbus speech, the President boarded his "Sacred Cow" plane for Washington. There the fun abruptly ended; Harry Truman plunged at once into a half week of work...
Last week, for example, five Columbus ministers, members of the rival American Council of Christian Churches (which claims to speak for 1,000,000 Protestants), attacked the Federal Council's condemnation of The Bomb as "un-American," charged that the Council's atomic warfare committee was loaded with "wheelhorses from such centers of pacifism and radicalism as Yale Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary, Chicago Theological Seminary...
...Stuff. In Columbus, Ohio, Saloonkeeper Sam Barkan cheerfully opened up after hours to let a wide-eyed little girl use the phone, forked over $125 to her companions: two gunmen...