Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Abilene Christian. When he arrived, Coach Oliver Jackson got a shock. "When he got off that train." Jackson recalls. "I said to myself that if he ever ran as fast as 10.2 I'd be surprised. But the first time I timed him, he ran 9.9 in cross-country shoes. I took my watches and had them checked. I couldn't believe a squatty guy like that could run that fast...
...whom she loathed and despised." She prays that she will lose it, and one night in a storm she stumbles out into the barnyard and has a miscarriage in the mud. Husband Boyd, generously letting bygones be bygones picks her up in his brawny arms and staggers six miles cross-country to the doctor. Then he turns around and staggers back to the farm to take care of Susan's seven-year-old son (Dennis Holmes). But the boy, who thinks that Boyd has killed his mother, tries to take care of him first. He lures...
Inevitably, into the bitter recall election that resulted stepped the man who, by his inflammatory statements and suggestions, had set off Little Rock's integration explosion in the first place. In a pair of televised speeches. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus put prestige and passion squarely behind CROSS, dismissed STOP as "a smokescreen behind which the integrationists now move forward." Said Faubus: "When there is an attempt to force something bad or something thought to be bad upon the children of this state, I will resist such force with all my might, and it will pass only by trampling over...
...since the end of World War II. No longer supported by the court, the troupe still uses the resplendent gold-and-silk costumes privately owned by the Emperor; a Pinkerton man is guarding them during the troupe's 16 Manhattan performances. (The troupe will also go on a cross-country tour, with stops at Boston, Washington, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles...
Chih's disciples dutifully sealed their master's unembalmed body, seated cross-legged in the position of meditation, in a six-foot concrete urn, enshrined it behind the monastery near Taipei where he had spent his last days, and at once set about collecting money for the gilding they were confident he would deserve...