Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next few years went by, Professors Hall and Ford could be said to have become more knowledgeable.... During the next summer vacation, Ford sent Hall a long letter, saying he had been reading Shaw's Saint Joan. In the epilogue, Shaw had made it clear that the world was pleased enough to have the young lady in legend and in history, but it had no desire to have her or her kind live among them. Ford ended by saying he guessed the saint and the true scholar shared the same fate...
They rarely told him about department politics, but one evening, after a second brandy, Ford found himself saying that at a cocktail party Brockberg had said to him that his friend Greg was, well, without sufficient humor. Ford had thought he could state it less explicitly than that, but halfway through his sentance he realized that Greg already knew what he was going to say. Greg's eyes lit up with a look of disinterested amusement. Walking down the snowy sidewalk together afterwards, Ford apologized to Hall for his gaucherie, and Hall told him not to worry; Greg understood Brockberg...
...winter, the spring, the summer, and the fall went by, then still other winters and springs and summers. Ford and Hall both began to be aware of the way the years clicked off. New students came, and there were end-of-semester exams. Each of them had married, each had two children, and occasionally on a Sunday afternoon one or the other, family in tow, would walk up to the old three-story brick house and pay Professor Greg a visit.... Greg rarely said anything about what he was working on, or even whether he was working toward any specific...
...ironic season for him to die. Autumn had come, and registration for classes had just begun. There was a large funeral procession, which included the business manager of the University and the gray-haired librarian who worked at the circulation desk, as well as the entire department. Briggs, Ford, and Hall were among the pallbearers. Even after classes had been going for some weeks, Ford and Hall found themselves still depressed. Over coffee they talked about Greg and what he had meant to them. The truth was that his passing had left them feeling isolated and, as Hall said, somehow...
They went down the corridor together silently, and into Ford's office. Hall spoke first. "Imagine Greg singling out Brockberg! I guess he wanted to assure us that he wasn't above playing a little joke...