Word: ist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Were Here." The son of Portrait ist John Butler Yeats, London-born Jack Yeats was more Irish at heart than either his father or brother. "We did not come with Elizabeth," he said, "or with Cromwell, or with Dutch William. We were here." He was a courtly, gentle man who daily fed the pigeons outside his Dublin house and often cut out puppets for children. "He always had a new joke to tell," says Irish Artist Norah McGuiness, "and never made a commonplace remark. He lived in a different world, and I wish I could have entered...
...pair of Sidewinders hung from the Air National Guard F-100 of ist Lieut. James W. Van Scyoc, 27, when he took off from New Mexico's Kirtland Air Force Base and climbed to make some scheduled practice runs on an eight-engined 6-52 that was flying at 34,000 ft. Van Scyoc was an expert at handling the Sidewinder. Not only was he his squadron's safety officer, but he had written standard operating procedures on the use of the missile...
Hell Is a City. Man has been moving to the suburbs ever since he invented the urbs. "Rus mihi dulce sub urbe est," sang the Roman epigrammatist Martial in the ist century A.D. "To me, the country on the outskirts of the city is sweet." And small wonder, for the towns and walled cities of Europe, from ancient times through the Middle Ages and beyond, were airless, fetid places choking with humanity. The big crisis of the cities came with the Industrial Revolution. In England lonely voices cried out against the grime and stench of the cities. "Hell...
...even have to carry his name on the masthead and are free to endorse any cause. Says Newhouse: "It may be temperament, it may be inclina tion, but I will not interfere with my editors, or with local affairs." The Bir mingham News is rabidly segregation ist; in Syracuse, the Democrat-leaning Herald-Journal and the Republican Post-Standard carry on a constant editorial feud...
...Lockheed recruited Air Force ist Lieut. Francis Powers. Powers was a plane-happy youngster born in the Cumberland mountain country in Kentucky, near the Virginia border. His father, Oliver Powers, 55, who owns a shoe-repair shop in Norton, Va., reveled in telling callers last week that Francis got his first plane ride at the age of 14, came back to announce: "I left my heart up there, Pap, and I'm goin' back...