Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate of 2,600,000 a year, the needs are pyramiding. They are most acute in Southern California, the fastest-growing region in the U.S. Los Angeles now has a population of about 4,000,000, expects 6,000,000 by 1960 and 10 million by 1970; San Diego County (pop. about 700,000) is planning for 1,250,000 by 1960, twice that...
When Tennis Star Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, 18, got a heroine's welcome at the San Diego railroad station after winning the U.S. clay courts tennis title in River Forest, Ill., photographers asked her to kiss her 21-year-old seagoing boy friend, Petty Officer Norman Brinker. Little Mo politely refused, gave him a warm hug and a smile instead. But things were different at home. A cameraman followed her out to the stable, snapped her in a reunion with Colonel Merryboy, a seven-year-old roan presented to her last year by admiring citizens of San Diego...
...weeks passed, the Herald & Express went right on hammering this theme. Then came the news that Stoddard had called on his colleague, Superintendent Will Crawford of San Diego, to administer the plan. "Crawford," cried the Herald & Express, "was the center of a storm in San Diego over the UNESCO-teaching there." That seemed evidence enough that Stoddard is trying "to swing UNESCO and 'One World' back into the Los Angeles school system...
...women's final, San Diego's hard-driving Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly won her second Wimbledon title in a row, 8-6, 7-5, in a brilliant baseline match with Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla. It was the eighth all-American women's finals in eight years...
...beginning it was just like other wars: the marines sailed from San Diego, and the nation glowed with the conviction that its sons were fighting in an honored cause-to save the weak from the strong. The mood changed with the headline: resolute at Pusan, proud at Inchon, angry and alarmed at defeat on the Yalu...