Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called one William Walter Cortor. A defense attorney, Mrs. Mary Kaufman, took one look at Cortor and gasped. Cortor, she told the judge in a voice trembling with rage, had sat in on a strategy meeting at her home a few nights before, when the defense discussed how to cross-examine Jones. Cortor testified that he had been filing weekly FBI reports since December...
...Geneva, the Red Viet Minh delegates talked about her; in Manhattan, student nurses prayed for her; in Washington, President Eisenhower said she should be named the "Woman of the Year." Before the League of Red Cross Societies, U.S. General Bedell Smith called her the epitome of nursely virtue. "Poor little one," said her mother the Vicomtesse in Paris. "She has no clothes to put on. She must have been wearing the same dress for 20 days. She is a true soldier...
...Dienbienphu's last week of freedom, De Castries presented her with the Legion of Honor, kissing her on both cheeks. "The entire garrison wishes it could do the same," said the general. On May 4 he presented her with the Military Cross with palms "for courage under fire." Privately, De Castries told GHQ: "It is tragic that she must live here in this manner. She never stops working until she falls on her feet." As the Communists came in for their final assault, she sent her own final message to Hanoi: "Tell my mother not to worry. All goes...
...John Blanks Campbell, veteran of 49 years at the tracks, enjoys the "dictatorial power to estimate the talents of horses at most of the big eastern race tracks and thereupon to garland each with an amount of weight theoretically calculated to make all the horses in a handicap race cross the finish line simultaneously. The idea for the Metropolitan was that Native Dancer should carry 130** and the next closest horse?Straight Face?should carry...
...Sweeney, who toured the country to make his selections in person, favors abstract art, and the scattering of representational pictures in his exhibition looks almost as out of place as dogs at a flower show. But Sweeney carefully points out that the exhibition is not meant to be a cross section or to indicate a trend...