Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elementary and high schools in nearby Prestonsburg. There was nothing unusual about the morning beyond cloudy skies, or about the bus and its journey. At about 7 o'clock Driver Jack Derossett, 27, started his usual route through the 75-family coal-mining town of Cow Creek, picked up his regular riders on schedule. Seconds before he was due, for example, James Goble, 12, John, 11, and Anna Laura, 9, the three children of Cow Creek Storekeeper James B. Goble, scooped up their books, kissed their mother, hurried out the door to climb aboard...
Down the wilderness trail from the Tahawus Club to North Creek in New York State's Adirondack Mountains a rattletrap huckboard jolted through the night, skidding off ruts, swaying past boulders and tree stumps, creaking and clattering through the silence of the forest. The night was black and misty. The horses were barely under control. The passenger sat tensed and hunched, eyes screwed up behind steel-rimmed spectacles, mouth clenched tight like a steel clamp beneath a prairie-dry mustache, his thoughts projected far out across a new century big with change. "Too fast?" the driver shouted. Theodore Roosevelt...
Just a year after Mrs. Hartack died, the shack where Billy grew up burned down. William Hartack was finally forced to move his family from Colver to his father's 300-acre farm near Belsano, Pa., where Black Lick Creek runs down the western slope of the Alleghenies. Young Willie did his share of farm chores, took the bus to Black Lick Township school, found time to play the drum in the school band, and got into enough extracurricular trouble to be a regular visitor at the principal's office. "I didn't like girls much then," says he, almost...
Glistening, growing Denver (pop. 511,800) had a dynamic mayor in Will Faust Nicholson. An Ivy Leaguer (Dartmouth, '22), he made a good marriage (to the daughter of a Cripple Creek mining man), a good career (investment banking, real estate) and a good name (twice elected as a Republican to the state senate). He was elected nonpartisan mayor of Denver in 1955 by only 802 votes, but Big Nick was marked well for the future by his good Republican connections in the state. Long, lanky (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.) and handsome, he sported a friendly, lopsided smile...
...KENDALL Walnut Creek, Calif...