Word: concord
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TOLAND Concord...
There was an air of concord throughout Geneva: experienced old Police Chief Charles Knecht (who has shaken the hands of a long line of grey statesmen who failed to make peace in his city) decided that around the lakeside villas of the Big Four "barbed wire will not be necessary...
...every stop he sounded more and more like a campaigner. He often had a special bow for his White House "chief of staff," former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams (who turned out in Bermuda-length shorts to play golf with Ike at Whitefield's Mountain View course). At Concord he explained to a crowd of 20,000 gathered around the old (1819) granite State Capitol that Adams was always lecturing the presidential staff on the glories of New Hampshire. After assuring the voters of New Hampshire that he believed every word of Adams' tales, the President said: "People...
...schoolmaster at Haddam Landing on the Connecticut River; later he moved to New London, where in the summer mornings he taught a class of girls from 5 to 7 a.m. He was happy in his work, but a few weeks after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, he decided to join the Army and was commissioned a lieutenant. "I have thought much of never quitting it [teaching] but with life," he wrote the New London school trustees, requesting release from his contract, "but at present there seems an opportunity of more extensive public service...
...could pick as much as 250 lbs. of cotton a day; at eleven she began her daily five-mile trudge to school at a small Presbyterian mission. At 15, she boarded a train for the first time in her life and set off for the Scotia Seminary in Concord, N.C., and later to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. There she found herself the only Negro in a sea of strangers. "White people's eyes pierced me," said she. "Some of them were kind eyes; others would like to be but were still afraid." After graduation she taught...