Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harold sleeps in the Common. He awakes each morning to the sun, a stomach growl, and the stolid stone gaze of Lincoln watching Garden Street--at about seven-thirty. He usually steals a newspaper on the way to the Square (Bernard Goldfine fascinates him), and eats breakfast at the Bick...
...nearly $2,000 in hotel tabs paid by Goldfine. Adams testified that "particularly when driving, it was an accommodation to me to stop overnight on a trip from my home [in Lincoln, N.H.] to Washington and vice versa. Mr. Goldfine on one occasion said to me, 'If there is any time when you would like to stay in a suite which I have in a hotel in Boston, I hope you will occupy it, because it is there, paid for, and I would be glad to have you enjoy the accommodations.' This...
...mother, but he spent his summers in Vermont under the tutelage of his grandfather. He scratched through four years at Dartmouth, studying economics, singing (basso) in the glee club, hiking the hills and mountains of the north country. For 18 years Adams worked for a lumber company in Lincoln, N.H. In the logging camps and offices, Sherm Adams was known as a rugged woodsman and boss who worked ceaselessly and kept his mouth shut. To Rachel White, the lively, attractive girl he married in 1923, Sherm was known fondly as "the Great Stone Face...
...people called him "the show boy, our leader, the man of destiny," and the British saw in Kwame Nkrumah, educated at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, the man most likely to succeed in turning his newly independent Gold Coast nation of six main tribes, three religions and 65 dialects into a smoothly running parliamentary democracy. In the 15 months since Ghana won its freedom, Prime Minister Nkrumah has brought his people stability, but in the process liberty has received a few side blows...
Automation. In Lincoln, Neb., Jack Coffman was treated at a hospital for injuries received from a power lawnmower, went home, turned up at another hospital later in the day with more injuries from the same machine...