Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crash Course. Ed Brooke grew up in a pleasant northeast-Washington section called, coincidentally, Brookland, which was populated by black bourgeoisie. The family belonged to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, a favored house of worship for well-to-do Negroes ?where, it was said, one minister died of sorrow because his congregation complained that his new bride was too black to sit in the pews...
...R.O.T.C.-trained second lieutenant, was assigned to the all-Negro 366th Combat Infantry Regiment. He saw combat action in Italy, won a Bronze Star in 1943 for leading a daylight attack on a heavily fortified hilltop artillery battery. Because of a facility in Latin and French, he took a crash course in Italian and later worked as a liaison officer with Italian partisan guerrillas...
Hall replaced rugged Bill McBride for a while--now they get about equal playing time. Both like to operate in the center: Hall has a sweet hook, McBride prefers to crash the offensive boards...
...year. Three of them-Frederick Matthews, 24, Moses Herrin, 26, and Mary Battle, 26-had been convicted of the once unpardonable offense of assisting persons who wanted to flee the Iron Curtain. The fourth, William Lovett, 26, was imprisoned in May, 1965 for his part in a serious auto crash in Leipzig...
...courtrooms rather than classrooms. The son of a Hartford department-store floorwalker, he helped support his family as a filling-station attendant. A flawless student, he was awarded a scholarship to Holy Cross and graduated summa cum laude in 1941. Because he hurt his back in a plane crash, Williams was medically discharged by the wartime Army Air Corps after two years, went on to Georgetown Law School. By 1945 he was working for a big Washington firm. Although criminal law was then considered déclassé, Williams willingly switched to it in 1949 and opened his own firm...