Word: doorsteps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home again in 1923, Ezra made straight for Flora Amussen's doorstep, and proposed. But the Mormon Church stepped in again. This time it was her turn to do a missionary stint in Hawaii. Benson enrolled in Brigham Young University, where he matched Flora's reputation by being voted most popular man in his class, and graduated with honors. One professor recalls: "He was the smartest agriculture student I've ever had." Finally married in 1926, Flora and Ezra set off in a model T pickup truck for Iowa State College, where he had won a scholarship...
...arid threw her out because she "wasn't good for anything." One night a girl friend told her that there were "nice suet cakes and tea to drink" at the house of a Russian living in the Cite Falguiére. The girls stood shivering on the doorstep, afraid to knock. A neighboring painter, as poor and as cold as themselves, but a man of talent, took them...
...regard in which Eliot men hold their Master is shared by almost every student exposed to Finley's thoughtful, out-going personality. As enthusiastic about Finley as any Eliot man is the Kirkland senior who answered a knock on his door one morning to find Finley smiling on the doorstep. The senior had left his pipe during an interview at Eliot, and Finley had trudged up five flights to return...
...East African empire in a racial holocaust. Last week, in the exclusive "White Highlands," settlers went in fear of unseen Mau Mau snipers. One family found that its servants had fled to join the Mau Mau, leaving the beheaded trunks of its loyal "boys" sprawled across the doorstep. At Thomson's Falls, Dr. Ian Meiklejohn was slashed to death by Mau-Mau knifemen; in retribution, British troops rounded up every Kikuyu in a area surrounding the murder scene, drove off their cattle, sheep and goats and pulled down every native hut in sight...
First for Maryknoll. A doorstep in China, Bishop Ford was a door opener and pace setter for his order, the Maryknoll Society, which now numbers 2,337 fathers and sisters. He was the first student to enroll at Maryknoll when it was founded 40 years ago. Ordained a priest in 1917, he was one of the first four missioners Maryknoll sent to China the following year. He founded the Maryknoll Seminary for Chinese Boys and played a key part in organizing the first overseas convent for Maryknoll sisters. His diocese would have been the first Maryknoll territory to be turned...