Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past nine weeks a furious little motorcade raced back and forth across the roads of Ireland. In the lead ran a seek, black Packard with Ireland's Prime Minister slouched wearily in the front seat beside a tense driver; close behind came a darting blue Ford with its complement of sleepy detectives. In district after district where the caravan stopped, farmers and townsfolk clustered round for a look at the gaunt, aging (71) hero who had won political freedom for their nation in 1922 and guided its destiny almost constantly ever since. They listened respectfully as Eamon de Valera...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, who left the University of Chicago to underpin the Ford Foundation, made an appearance at a credit-men's convention in San Francisco and unburdened himself of some random thoughts on the lurking perils of 100% Americanism: "To hear these people [i.e., superpatriots] talk, you would think that the American way consisted of unanimous tribal self-admiration . . . There is a present danger that critics of even the mildest sort will be frightened into silence ... I sometimes think we are approaching the point where it will be impossible for one person to be seen with another person...
...faster than 30 words a minute. By 1867, no less than 51 men had tried and failed to invent a machine that would write faster. The 52nd, Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, succeeded. And in its own way, the typewriter started as big a revolution as the mass-produced Ford...
...Carolina Press published the first of a series of reports that may provide some answers. Written by Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette Editor Harry S. Ashmore, The Negro and the Schools is the result of a long investigation carried out by 45 scholars under the auspices of the Ford Fund for the Advancement of Education. It not only reviews the legal history of the issue, it also points to a conclusion: the end of segregation will not be the bloody catastrophe its traditional supporters fear...
...childhood and youth (the first volume of his autobiography). When he was five, Joseph Conrad took him into the garden and taught him to sail a boat ("the sail was a . . . sheet tied . . . to a clothes prop . . . The green grass heaved in waves . . . our speed was terrific"). Novelist Ford Madox Ford showed him how to "twitch one ear without moving the other"; he went for a drive "accompanied by Henry James riding a bicycle," and a man named Jack Galsworthy, who had bookish aspirations, taught him to keep his head when others all about were losing theirs, by taking charge...