Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...progressed, Washington was turned into an armed camp, its hospitals filled with wounded and dying soldiers. The available cemeteries filled up rapidly, and burial became an urgent problem that weighed heavily upon Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, the Army's Quartermaster General, who was responsible for the military dead. One day, while he was walking in Washington, Meigs encountered Lincoln. The President noted that Meigs was distraught, asked him to go for a ride in his carriage...
...every military burial) and 24-hour-a-day sentries at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Arlington's population is growing at the rate of 75 funerals a week, and by 1969 or 1970, the cemetery will be filled with the nation's honored dead. Before that time, presumably, an Unknown Soldier of World War II will be interred beside his older brother-in-arms. Congress has authorized such a burial, but last week, ten years after the war, no unknown warrior had been selected, and the Army Quartermaster's Office was still "coordinating" its plans...
...plate champagne supper and literary auction this week, then lined up guests and sponsors to pay for the supper so that all the receipts would go to Poetry. He ran afoul of a few Philistines. Publisher Bennett Cerf refused to kick in declaring roundly that "Poetry is dead " but when Lannan let that be known among the literati, Cerf came around. Louis Untermeyer thought the whole idea vulgar" and Poetry not worth saving. ("He's nothing but an anthologist anyway," sniffed Lannan.) One Manhattan lawyer coldly refused to help, in the apparent belief that Poet Frost was some kind...
...angels in their visitations should call on Sarah Tubb, whom Spencer remembers vividly when "she knelt right down in the street at the time there was a thing called Halley's comet." On the day of the Resurrection, Spencer paints the whole Cookham churchyard opening up as the dead come forth. In one version Spencer portrays himself on judgment morn, leaning against a tombstone, his work apparently done...
...Board's action thus represents a dead end for this fall's drive to allow lady guests in the Houses as early as 1 p.m. on weekdays. According to several Masters, it also means that no change in the College's parietal rules is likely within the next few years...