Word: denly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a century everyone had managed to get along just fine, even though part of the town was called Baarle-Hertog and was Belgian, and the other was called Baarle-Nassau and was Dutch. Then one day in 1939, a Belgian named Sooi Van Den Eijnde decided to lead his pigs across Lots 91 and 92. The Netherlands Railways, convinced that the lots were Dutch, had built nine houses there, and the Dutch customs official lived in one of them...
...that's Daniel, going into the lions' den," cracked a Washington reporter one warm afternoon last week. The Daniel: shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and front-running candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. The lions: the 51-man Council of Methodist Bishops (membership: 10 million), on a long-planned tour to talk with top ranking Washingtonians, including President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren, now waiting in Washington's Old Senate Office Building. Candidate Kennedy, head tucked in careful thought over each answer, was quizzed on his Roman Catholicism...
...National League Milwaukee nosed out the Philadelphia Phillies 4 to 3 in ten innings before 42,081 fans. The Braves picked up their third straight triumph on consecutive singles by Hank Aaron, Wes Covington, and Johnny O'Brien. Den McMahon was the winning pitcher. Chicago ruined San Francisco's opener 5 to 2, as Ernie Banks blasted two home runs...
Slipper & Smoking Jacket. Persons' office looks more like a den (a tiger skin, two mounted bonefish, his two-starred major general's flag) than a command post of Government. There he operates with a sort of slipper-and-smoking-jacket informality. He still makes his own telephone calls to Congressmen; no Senator is ever kept hanging on the wire by a secretary. He takes virtually every incoming call ("When I get to Arlington National Cemetery," he sighs, "I'll stop taking them"), even encourages the last little argument, sometimes past the point of productivity. To Persons...
...owns but two cars, a Cadillac and a Thunderbird. His wife Roselle, whom he married 25 years ago in Canonsburg, does the cooking; he sometimes dries the dishes. His interests are golf (high 70s) and his three children. Chief entertainment: watching TV while sprawled on a couch in his den, and writing congratulatory telegrams to TV comedians...