Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indiana's Republicans, accustomed to fast moves by their bosses, could hardly believe that Bill Jenner would put his hard-driving ambition into reverse. But he came back to the state, politicked at the fish frys, backslapped the hill boys, and swore that the limit of his ambition was to be governor, not senator...
...great hill, called Pendle Hill, and I was moved...
Today, on the side of the hill that was Selkirk's lookout is a bronze tablet, put up in his memory by the captain and officers of a British ship which visited the island in 1868. Hard by the beach where Crusoe found Friday is now a fishing village, San Juan Bautista. In it live most of the 560 Juan Fernándians. Sixty live on the smaller island of Más-a-Fuera, 90 miles farther out. Santa Clara, third of the group, is uninhabited...
This runaway conversation is reported in a book published this week, Children and Religion (Scribner; $2.50). Its author, Dora M. Chaplin, director of religious education at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Mass., cites it as an example of the kind of thing children hate-"the saccharine voice and the tense moments of imposed instruction." Instead, Author Chaplin recommends honest parental example and as little watering down of religious doctrine as possible...
Short Putt. In North College Hill, Ohio, Charles A. Lasure, 82, rested overnight after a 1,000-mile junket from Ardmore, Okla., then started back the way he had come: by motor scooter...