Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Late one night last week, four Chinese Nationalist cops strode into the shabby living room of Kung Teh-pai, editor of Nanking's National Salvation Daily (circ. 15,000). Without a word, stubby, rugged Editor Kung, who has well earned his reputation as China's most outspoken editor, reached for his hat. After 25 years of writing what he thought - and eight previous arrests - Kung knew what to expect. He told his wife: "You can reach me at the prison." The day before, Kung had written a long, angry editorial accusing retired President Chiang Kai-shek of "manipulating...
...delegates shouted down Dawson's amendment, but by then it was too late. The potato was too hot to handle in the closing minutes of the conference, and the whole report was referred to the Federal Council of Churches' executive committee for further consideration. Then the delegates hurried home, able to report to their churches that, at least among themselves, they had kept the peace...
...remained staunchly Democratic after Congressman Charles Creighton Carlin Sr., of Alexandria, who had worked briefly as a reporter on the Gazette, bought it in 1911 from the Snowden heirs. Now Editor C. C. Carlin Jr., 49, the courtly, conservative son of the late Congressman, runs the Gazette in the same unreconstructed way. He proudly displays the Stars & Bars alongside an autographed photograph of Robert E. Lee in his tiny, cluttered office, just as proudly boasts that the Gazette was the first and northernmost newspaper to raise a rebel yell in the Dixiecrats' cause...
...modern record for consecutive minutes of play (309 min. 20 sec.) without allowing a score, beating Boston Bruin Frankie Brimsek's old mark by 77 min. 26 sec. and topping by 19 min. 8 sec. the standard of his idol, the Chicago Black Hawks' late, great Charlie Gardiner...
...dictating her weekly letters. Caught up in their infatuation, the lovers defy the protests of their parents and friends. For them the war is a precious parenthesis. When it does come to an end, Marthe dies giving birth to a son. Her suffering and death also give birth - too late - to Fran...