Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Payroll. On the U.S. Government payroll are 2,603,300 civilian employees who, with their families, carry a tremendous vote into the Democratic column...
...Kentucky, the Republican senatorial nominee is John Sherman Cooper, who was elected to a two-year Senate term in 1946. Cooper was defeated in 1948, but ran far ahead of the national ticket. He is certain to coax many independent Democrats over to the Republican column and his presence helps Ike in this normally Democratic state...
...Great Artiste at exactly 11:03 a.m. was far more powerful than that which had fallen on Hiroshima three days previously. Looking down on Nagasaki, Sergeant Raymond C. Gallagher of Chicago, wearing welder's goggles to protect his eyes, saw three "shock circles" rising through the boiling-up column of smoke, flame and dust. In that instant one-third of the city, including the Mitsubishi steel plant, had been destroyed. Engulfed in the explosion were 252,000 people, 36,000 of whom died, and 40,000 of whom were seriously injured...
...question & answer column, the Paris newspaper France Soir was asked: "Would you tell me what the American national anthem is and by whom composed and at what epoch?" The paper's answer: "The American national anthem was composed at the end of the last century, by John Philip Sousa . . . was called The Stars and Stripes Forever...
While white-clad Vietnamese waiters served the course, a column of native soldiers in the green French Union battle-dress emerged from the jungle-covered mountain which overlooks the Cap and marched up to the lighted dining hall in columns of two. They were armed with regulation grenades and Sten guns and carried machetes. The first grenade, thrown from the kitchen, killed Bartender Tuyen instantly. Vietnamese Cook Nguyen Van Loc played dead, but a green-clad soldier poured boiling water on him, and when he squirmed, shot him. In the hallway other green-clad soldiers shot down the Perrin children...