Word: knoll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallows Knoll." When Curtin turned on the music last week, Marlowe acted fast, sued for an injunction. Curtin expressed astonishment. The gibbets, he explained, were just part of the decor: he planned to name his place "Gallows Knoll." And he had meant no offense when he turned on the music. He just liked to hear hillbilly music, and turned the radio up so that he could listen as he worked in his yard. Besides, he was not happy to hear the recorded hymns that waft from the cemetery's public-address system every Sunday. "It boils down to this...
Artist Baker now lives "in a white house on a green knoll in a beautiful valley" in Hendersonville. N.C.. where, he says, "I work every day in the week and never, never have a day off. I'm in a gorgeous rut." It takes Baker two weeks to complete a TIME cover. He commutes to New York every other Wednesday to deliver a portrait and pick up his next assignment. During the work on a cover, he walks a mile before breakfast and does elaborate calisthenics to combat easel fatigue. The one exercise he hates is mowing...
...sight of his destiny in adolescent flashes of intuition. Standing in a tent show before a penny-dreadful melodrama, he feels the actor's hypnotic hold on the crowd, senses that his words too may one day sway and spellbind. Standing, on another day, atop a rain-drenched knoll with his Adventist father and nine of the faithful awaiting the second coming of Christ, he feels his faith oozing away. He turns to the prophets of social revolution, soaks up the teachings of Proudhon, Marx and Bakunin. and becomes a labor organizer. But a violent and bitter strike convinces...
...face with a grimy shirtsleeve. 'I was supposed to back up the platoon with my B.A.R., and I had picked out a swell place where I could see almost every inch of the path the platoon was taking. I saw the lieutenant take the patrol over a little knoll and I knew that if they were going into an ambush, that was where it would be. Then I saw the ambush. I saw about six or eight Chinese rise up from the rim rock with their machine guns-they were American machine guns, I remember-and started to fire...
Even back in West Virginia, where the family lived before coming to Indiana, says his mother, "everybody knowed he was a climber. He'd worry the life out of me goin' up on to some knoll and then riding a sapling down into the gulch." Reflecting on this one afternoon last week, while munching on a jelly sandwich Roger felt a little dissatisfied with himself. School had been out a week and the weather was warm, but he still hadn't "worked up some of his big ideas...