Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spit on Her." It was in Charlotte that the worst trouble occurred-and, in a dramatic sense, it was in Charlotte that the finest victory was won. A crowd began to gather at 8:30 a.m. to await the only Negro assigned to Harding High School (three others were sent to other schools). Mrs. John Z. Warlick, small, shrill wife of a truck driver, began whipping up excitement. "It's up to you to keep her out," she told teen-age boys. At 10:30 a.m., the crowd spotted the girl: Dorothy Geraldine Counts, 15, daughter of a theology...
Settlement of Duty. Last week, after long and hard dickering among legal experts and art connoisseurs, he reached a settlement with the Treasury by which, as a $3,360,000 installment on his inheritance tax, he will hand over Hardwick Hall, one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in existence, together with its 934-acre park, and eight major works of art from the Chatsworth collection, including works by Rembrandt, Memling. Holbein and Van Dyck. The paintings will go to British museums. Hardwick Hall will be administered by the National Trust, and be open to the public four days a week...
...world is in your corner." Then in rich, sepulchral tones, Announcer Paige chimed: "Today, just as at other weddings, it's traditional that gifts be given to the bride. This is the moment you've been waiting for. This Bell portable sewing machine, the world's finest. This gleaming Westinghouse freezer brings you beauty, convenience, economy. You'll be at your loveliest with a two-year supply of Tangee's Tropicana Orange lipstick. The next prize ... I mean gift," etc., etc. Then came the topper: "a special, never-to-be-forgotten present"-an Esther Williams...
...Conqueror. Nobody was surprised that hawk-nosed, blue-eyed Walter Bonatti had tried it ("I climb mountains because I am afraid of them, and conquest of fear is one of man's greatest needs"). Bonatti ranks among the world's finest mountaineers, is certainly one of the toughest. A Lombard laborer's son, he quit his steel mill job at 19 to become an Alpine guide and ski instructor. In 1954 he was the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2. The next year he performed a fine one-man climb up Mont Blanc...
This may have been phrenology's finest hour. Bernard Baruch rose to become a wizard of Wall Street, a philanthropist, sportsman, landed squire, patriot, "adviser to Presidents," park-bench sage, and above all, a continuing American legend. Timed to appear on his 87th birthday, this first volume of his autobiography tells only half the Baruch story, barely reaching his World War I stint as czar of the War Industries Board (a companion volume in the fall of '58 will bring the saga up to date). The book packs no surprises, but in its engaging, unpretentious...