Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of the $33,000 is more dramatic than Senator Douglas, for it portrays the old Yankee doggedness that built New England. For ten generations the fishermen of Ogunquit and Perkins Cove (as the Josias River vicinity is known) had no harbor, and were forced to drag their boats over the rocks to safety during storms. Need for a sheltered basin grew as the fishing industry expanded...
Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (Paisan, Open City), separated from his wife and son since 1942, told his lawyers to file divorce papers. He is still on the island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian, where he is directing a movie about life among the fishermen, featuring an amateur cast and starring Ingrid Bergman...
...Xavier, greatest missionary of the Roman Catholic Church since Apostolic times. One of the first Jesuits, who helped St. Ignatius Loyola found the order, Francis Xavier journeyed to India .and then to the Far East in his historic quest for converts. On Aug. 15, 1549, the astonished farmers and fishermen of Japan first saw his black-clad figure. For more than two years thereafter, Francis Xavier moved tirelessly among the Japanese, of whom he wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds of converts, sowed the seed of a Japanese church that numbers more than...
...Hanami (flower viewing). The Japanese left their wretched, paper-thin houses and their half-ruined factories; chattering with delight, they roamed across the broad lawns of their public gardens to view the flowers of spring. City folk flocked to the beaches. Up & down the jagged, black-sanded coast, fishermen pushed off their squat wooden boats. Farmers tirelessly slushed through their rice fields as they had always done...
Dogwood bloomed white and pink in Rock Creek Park and fishermen were out along the Potomac. Vacationing tourists were everywhere-swarming through the Capitol's dark corridors, leveling their cameras at the White House and the Washington Monument. In this fine spring atmosphere members of the House approved what was probably a peacetime record for one week's check-signing ($24 billion), then headed for home and a ten-day vacation. The Senate, far behind in its work, labored...