Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the Rocks. By 1915, when Ferguson was president, the yard was building warships so fast that 20% of the tonnage with which the U.S. entered World War I, from destroyers to battleships, came from Newport News. Yet in the postwar slump the company almost went broke. It squeaked through...
Cokes and Ice Cream. The sexton, Tom Ryan, had a good name in the neighborhood. He had a cherubic, middle-aged face-"like a bottle baby," said Mrs. Mary McLoughlin down the street. And if the Mission showed little interest in the souls of bums, Father Norman was a friend...
Himmler spends much time picking obscure but fanatical Nazis for his guerrilla army. Some have been planted in concentration camps, to pose as anti-Nazis when the Allies take over. Others have been given identity cards taken from ordinary Germans killed in air raids, and from 30,000 people associated...
Russian Interlude. The interval between Sonia's wild daydreaming and her actual departure for Boston is less Proustian than Russian. Her father, a frustrated, hard-drinking man, pulls out one night, never to be heard of again. (The family is sure he headed West, since he practically lived on...
It is not extraordinary for Colby to go to three parties in an evening. On the side, she has just finished her autobiography, significantly titled I Paid 'for It Myself* which will appear late this year. She still models occasionally, rarely with her too-similar sister Francine. And last...