Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Live Christ the King. The tautly disciplined column marched in 38 groups, each under its own jefe de grupo. The groups even prayed in unison. Sometimes there would be a moment of silence. Then the column leaders would shout "Viva Cristo Rey," and back would come the roar: "Viva...
...tall, gaunt man strode south down the rough road from the mountain city of Querétaro last week at the head of a five-mile-long column of men. Mile on mile he moved across rugged hills, over the naked brown mountains. He walked past ancient churches and haciendas, through villages with pre-Christian names-Tepoztlán, Tlalnepantla, Cuautitlán. As he drew near Mexico City he passed modern factories-Azteca Cement, Nash Motors, La Consolidida Steel-whose chimneys ribbed the blue of Mexico...
...readers of the New Hampshire Morning Union (once owned by the late Frank Knox), 42-year-old Publisher William Loeb explained in a front-page editorial why he was running a two-column story on Wallace's visit. Wrote Loeb: "We are giving Henry Wallace . . . more space in our paper than [his visit] deserves . . . Because we dislike him so much, we want to be sure we are doing the right thing...
...wagon, been cowboy, cook, farmer, fruitgrower, preacher and proprietor of a farmers' market. Fallwell ambled down to the La Grande (Ore.) Evening Observer (circ. 3,700) and asked how much it would cost to buy enough space to tell his whole story. He finally settled for a two-column want-ad a week, at $15 for each...
...Smith made no promises; she just pointed to her record. She had voted with the G.O.P. majority and had stuck to the progressive wing. She had learned her district like the back of her hand. She faithfully answered every letter herself. Every week, she sent local newspapers a folksy column called "Washington and You." Said a constituent: "That Margaret is straight as a yard of pump water...