Word: laurelled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hall, the end of the mosaic was nowhere in sight. Fishing scenes and pictures drawn from the myths of Hercules and Orpheus embellished other rooms of the villa. Probably the most startling discovery was the mosaic floor of what archaeologists guess was once a girls' gymnasium. Theresa laurel-crowned prizewinner and her willowy companions disport themselves in skimpy woolen garb-an unmistakable preview of today's "Bikini" style of undress...
...days later, 25 miles from the scene of the Whitsunday murders, Georges Chantot, a crippled World War II veteran, was fishing by a laurel-bordered brook, with his wife, their three-months-old daughter, and a schoolteacher friend...
...Broke! (MGM) adds another laurel to one of the most decorated U.S. combat units of World War II,* the Nisei of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Treated at first with taunts and suspicion, rankled by the knowledge that their families were herded into resettlement camps, the Nisei proved themselves both loyal Americans and superb fighting...
...Communists were in control of Willie McGee's defense, and they submitted a new and ugly accusation: McGee had been intimate with the woman for several years and had been framed because he tried to break off the relationship. In the small (pop. 20,000) town of Laurel, there was utterly no evidence of such a relationship; and a physician had testified that Mrs. Hawkins had been raped. Willie McGee was again sentenced to death. The Mississippi supreme court, calling the charges against Mrs. Hawkins a "revolting insinuation and plainly not supported," denied a third appeal. Willie McGee...
Willie McGee had received two reprieves from Supreme Court Justices, but now the court turned him down. He shuffled into the same courtroom in Laurel where he was first tried, and sat down in Mississippi's portable electric chair. The powerful generator that supplied lethal current to the chair whined away. Within a few minutes, Willie McGee was dead...