Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa's Detroit Lawyer George S. Fitzgerald, in 1955, accepted $35,000 in fees from a land company at a time when the Michigan Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund lent the land company...
...Been appointed to the Red-led National Front Central Action Committee immediately after the 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia, which put the minority Communists in control of the land...
...Cloth. The tunic tradition goes back to Flavia Helena, wife of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus (he is said to have picked her up in a Balkan tavern during one of his campaigns) and mother of Constantine the Great. Converted to Christianity about 312, Helena later journeyed to the Holy Land, went to Calvary, and (wrote St. Ambrose 70 years later) "had excavations made, the debris cleared away and unearthed three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler Ambrose...
...Arkansas governed by a nervous demagogue. Little Rock's moderate school board prepared to face the consequences of obeying the integration laws of the land. With canny suddenness, the board ordered high schools opened this week-nearly a month ahead of schedule. Announced reason: the 2,500 students, including six Negroes newly assigned to Central and Hall high schools (compared to the embattled nine at Central in 1957), will need judicious counseling before classes start...
...historian of the plains, Webb follows in the tradition of the great Frederick Jackson Turner, who first formulated the frontier theory of U.S. history in 1893: "The existence of an area of free land and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." To write his history of the Texas Rangers, says Webb, "Like Parkman I went to all the places where things had happened," and finally "I stumbled on one of the few original ideas I ever had." The idea: "What I saw was that when Stephen F. Austin brought his colonists to Texas, he brought them...