Word: concord
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Less than a decade ago men were talking of a 'brave new world,' a world of four universal freedoms ... of nations united and peoples at peace in a reign of concord and prosperity within a global new Arcady. Such a Pollyanna outlook . . . was described by one astute critic in the early '40s as 'Dawnism,' the ingenuous expectation that the millennium was at hand, or at the very most a political conference or two away...
...appointed hour of 9:30 a.m. one day last week, New Hampshire's young (35) Governor Hugh Gregg stepped before assembled news, radio and television men in the council chamber of the statehouse at Concord. Beside him was an elder of New Hampshire Republicanism, aging (69) Robert William Upton, one.of the state's top trial lawyers. They were there to reveal what had been a closely kept secret: Gregg was appointing Concord's Upton to the U.S. Senate vacancy caused by the death of wrathful old Charles William Tobey (TIME...
...TOLAND Concord...
Every Inch a General. The second Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, hesitated hardly at all in picking Delegate George Washington to command the American army. Delegate John Hancock nursed improbable dreams of military glory for himself, but Massachusetts, which had started the war, dared not suggest one of its own for high command lest the rest of the colonies touchily let Massachusetts try to finish the war, too. Washington was a Virginian, and thus politically eligible; he had commanded troops, and furthermore he looked like a general...
...American Unitarian Association, the pilgrimage will wend its way to the First Parish Church in Concord, where, at 4 p.m., Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will deliver the Ware Lecture. It will be rebroadcast at 8:30 tonight by WGBH...