Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lulled by a dream about a "sacred mission," Fred ran away and joined the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) at Valley Falls, R.I. The good fathers viewed the novice with some alarm. The boy already stood 6 ft. tall, weighed close to 200 Ibs., and the way he piled through a plate of turnips suggested strongly that he was riot meant to mortify the flesh. After two years the abbot gently told...
...Demara went-on and on around the monastery circuit. In his 205, he was caught by the FBI and tried by the Navy for desertion in wartime. Demara conducted his own defense, drew a six-year sentence, and with time off for good behavior, he went free in 18 months...
...onetime saxman's fond, moody reminiscence of the hard-blowing early '303. Jogged by a telephone call from one of his old partners, the narrator recalls the rise and fall of the combo they formed. The group begins as a trio, built around an astonishingly good young trumpeter. Then the saxman finds a pianist at a Harlem rent party, and the trio sounds even better as a quartet. Bookings pick up, and with the addition of two more saxophonists and a drummer, the outfit seems on the point of blowing itself a big name...
...Rangers, split into small hunting parties, were easy prey to the aroused Indians. At one point, faint with hunger, a detachment of Rangers found the bodies of comrades butchered by the Indians, and ate them raw. Rogers, as usual, survived (49 others died) and commented simply: "I had the good fortune to succeed...
...mounted on a stake and had his one eye gouged out in Henryk (Quo Vadis) Sienkiewicz's Pan Michael. Later, when the Serbs revolt against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, severed heads are as common on the bridge as melons used to be, but the townsfolk-always approving of good workmanship-remark that the Turkish executioner has "a lighter hand than Mushan the town barber." When the Austrians finally march into Visegrad on the heels of the routed Turks, in 1878, they find a disputatious Moslem named Alihodja on the bridge with his ear nailed to a beam...