Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaigned with a hillbilly quartet. In the Far West, the gains were made by the Democrats. Montana's 38-year-old Republican Congressman Orvin B. Fjare lost the Second District to State Senator LeRoy Anderson in a campaign that centered around Fjare's opposition to paying the Crow Indians $5,000,000 for the proposed site of the Yellowtail Dam on the Big Horn River...
...Stockholm was swinging to her new course, Carstens-Johannsen turned to answer a phone call from the crow's nest reporting the movements of the fast-approaching ship. When he came back out onto the port wing of the bridge, he saw the sight he would never forget. Before him in the dark Atlantic loomed the brightly lighted shape of a passenger liner, showing her starboard green running light, and moving fatally and majestically across Stockholm's path. "Hard starboard! Full astern!" The desperate orders rang out again in the sedate courtroom. "I saw there would come...
From the day of grandma's funeral, Novelist (Crow Field) Boylen takes the reader back three years to the day when one of Ned Claypoole's footling experiments blew up and cost Lovey her sight. Red-haired Lovey soon finds that she is a misfit as a martyr. "Being a mean child," she explains, "I hadn't the temperament for it." While mother works as a nurse and father, as Noonday Ned the Oldtime Fiddler, saws away at the local radio station, Lovey is left to the untender mercies of sour old grandma, who tries zealously...
...Negro leaders of a two-week-old bus boycott rejected some surprisingly moderate bus-company concessions, e.g., first come, first-served seating (but no side-by-side mixing of Negroes and whites), hiring of Negro drivers on predominantly Negro runs. Instead, they demanded complete abolition of Jim Crow seating...
...Memphis, the president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed suit in Federal Court to challenge state laws requiring Jim Crow public transportation; he said enigmatically that there would be no bus boycott unless one started up "spontaneously...