Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warm, humid darkness fell on Wrightsville (pop. 1,760), Ga., one night last week, a long line of automobiles drew up at the ballpark. It was the eve of rural Johnson County's Democratic primary, and 400 Negroes had registered to vote. Two hundred and forty-nine men & women climbed solemnly out of the cars, holding black oilcloth bags. Heads down* to evade the gaze of curious bystanders, they took out the white sheets and sugar-sack masks of the Ku Klux Klan and hurriedly pulled them on. Then, in slow single file, they marched to the paved square...
Young Arthur MacArthur, the general's only son, broke out with chicken pox in Tokyo on the eve of his tenth birthday...
Priests. In many of the stories, O'Connor takes a mild jab at the clergy: Father Ring, a well-meaning but not too wise busybody; Father Cassidy, a worldly sort nonplussed by a girl's blithe confession of sin ("A philosopher of 60 letting Eve, aged 19, tell him about the apple!"); and Father Foley, a tragic figure who finds himself in love with a woman ("He sat by the fire wondering what his own life might have been with a girl like that, all furs and scents and laughter...
...Boston on Christmas Eve, 1939. More specifically, she was on exclusive Beacon Hill, where candles were flickering, where carolers were singing and where, by tradition, old families held open house. She met a wealthy, socially prominent young man named Richard Sears Jr. He thought she was wonderful. They were married two years later, while she was in an Eddie Dowling show in New York...
...gradually, verdant patches began to mar the white blanket of snow, and the Waban's waters became more suitable for swimming than skating. Last night, Carnival eve, the facts had to be faced: the Weather Man had given Wellesley lovelies the warm shoulder...