Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan international banking house. Because the Lehmans are Jews, Governor Patterson's dealings aroused Alabama's anti-Semites. In June, Patterson spoke to the state legislature, expressed sentiments that seemed heresy to Alabama's rabid segregationists. Said he: "We cannot afford to crawl back into a hole as far as public education is concerned." On a trip to Washington, Patterson met Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, whom he admired. Patterson promptly spoke up in favor of Catholic Jack Kennedy's presidential candidacy (TIME, July...
Four years ago Hassi Messaoud was simply an abandoned water hole, a navigational reference point for voyagers across the vast sea of sand and stone that the Romans called leonum arida nutrix- the arid nurse of lions. Today it has 5,000 inhabitants, sprawls over nearly 60 square miles of desert. Hassi Messaoud still has no women, no children, no church, no mosque. But it does have three hotels (650 rooms in air-conditioned cottages), two movie theaters, two swimming pools, an airport big enough to handle Caravelle jets, and 124 private firms, including an automatic laundry and a lemonade...
...grandfather had a big black mare named Kate. When he was seven and weighed just 55 Ibs., Ussery was clattering across the Oklahoma flatland, perched like a raisin on the bare back of Kate, and celebrating a win over other mounted kids by riding straight into a water hole, Kate...
...chief undoing was in giving over half the program to his son and daughter; the posters had proclaimed: "Josh White --Ballade and Blues," but with the White family singing campfire ditties like "There's a Hole in the Ground," the show was certainly not as advertised. Teenaged Josh Jr. tried (his own word) a half dozen numbers in an adolescent tone reminiscent of Jimmie Rodgers; Daughter Beverly fared better, mostly because her material far outweighed her brother's often embarrassingly juvenile repertoire...
...best of modern mysteries equal or outrank the run-of-the-rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...