Word: doric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm for the burial. "There was tears shed from every, eye," said his daughter Zola. "It was the most hurt crowd I ever saw." Three ministers invoked blessings and golden chrysanthemums were piled high on the grave. Then the kinfolk and the curious drifted away, leaving Widow Doric Webb and the five children alone in the ramshackle house on the wild, hard land...
...safety, then manned a machine gun and blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pinned a Navy Cross on Miller in 1942 for ''distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own personal safety." Two years later, heroic Doric Miller was lost...
...steaming August day in 1946, thin, dark deputy Castel Demesmin rose in Port-au-Prince's Doric-columned, blue-and-gold-trimmed Chambre des Deputes, drew a deep breath and let fly with a hot blast of pure male chauvinism. The topic under discussion was a modest petition to let Haitian women vote and hold office. "All the miseries of this country," roared Demesmin, "come from the women. They have corrupted the public officers, the Deputies, the Senators. The Haitian woman has brought this country to ruin . . . the women who want the right to vote are so much manure...
...observed: "The finest flower that grows must strike its roots in material earth . . . The noble products of civilization spring from organized and intelligently directed industry. When men lived in caves and every head of a family had to kill his own bear or go without meat, there were no Doric temples, no Trajan columns, or Dewey arches, and no poets reciting their verses of a Summer evening...