Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clambered into a Plymouth station wagon. Edmund Gerald Brown, 53, Democratic candidate for Governor of California, odds-on favorite in what may be the most important contest of Election Year 1958, was on his way to a 6:15 a.m. appointment with destiny. He did not intend to be late...
CHARLOTTESVILLE (pop. 30,300), home of the partly integrated University of Virginia, fretted about 30 Negro public school applicants until late last week, then decided to let its sister cities make history. The Charlottesville school board postponed the opening of school for two weeks beyond its scheduled date in the hope that the situation will clear by mid-September...
Across the prairie wheatfields, tractor headlights flickered through the night, and the clank of combines filled the still air. As farmers raced to beat late summer hailstorms, a harvest that defied drought, dust storms and the dire predictions of experts was moving in a golden stream last week to Canada's bins and elevators. The new wheat crop, estimated at 340 million bu., will probably be the smallest in four years -down sharply from 1956-57's huge 573.1 million bu. But it is so much better than anyone thought possible in early summer that many a wheat...
...Playing in the dead-ball era, the National League's late Honus Wagner of Pittsburgh, the greatest all-round shortstop, had a lifetime batting average of .329 (1897-1917), but never hit more than 10 homers in a single season...
Stacked Plane. In Hialeah, Fla., Charles R. Morris, who reportedly made a $100 bet with a man in a Hialeah bar that the plane the man was about to catch would be late taking off, was arrested for making a hoax phone call to Eastern Air Lines reporting a bomb on the aircraft...