Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above it, and mortar shells dropped in with their smashing slam. During the barrage, the Americans scanned Hill 166. When the shelling lifted, they went back to their small arms. Sergeant Thomas Toolen pointed to a Red pillbox nestled close by the graves. "See it?" he asked then "Hey, Graham, give him a couple of rounds!" Pfc. Donald Graham fired a short burst from his BAR across the shallow valley into the Communist emplacements. A man started from the pillboxes and dived into a nearby hole...
...Anything to declare?" a customs officer asked the Hon. Mrs. Graham Lampson, just back from France, in London's drafty Victoria Station one day last week. "Half a hundredweight [56 Ibs.] of coal," she replied. And there it was, in her immaculate suitcase, each lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Mrs. Lampson, daughter-in-law of Baron Killearn, first British Ambassador to Egypt, explained that French friends, concerned over Britain's critical fuel shortage, had given it to her so she could keep warm...
Friends in Seattle remember Betty Graham as a slender, doe-eyed girl with a "restless mind." Majoring in psychology at the University of Washington, she was a topflight student and a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority member with a normal interest in fun and parties. But she had no time for a steady boy friend or the small college talk of her friends; to her friends she seemed to be seeking a more intellectual interest...
...tone of her letters changed. There were "new developments," she wrote last July, and she was "thinking seriously of returning to the States after all." In September she was still trying to get ship passage, promised to be home "inside of a couple of months." Four months later, John Graham got a Christmas card which indicated that she had written several letters he had not received. She still couldn't complete arrangements" to leave the seaport of Tientsin...
Revivalist Billy Graham saw rifts in the clouds: "Things are looking up. I am encouraged. The picture is brighter. At this time there are more Christians in Congress than in many years...