Word: loneliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, but tiny outlaw cults, defiantly devoted to plural marriage, have gone on springing up in out-of-the-way corners of the Southwest ever since. Back in the '30s half a dozen renegade Mormon fundamentalists and their women trekked into one of the wildest and loneliest areas left in the U.S.-the unpoliced, almost uninhabited strip of tumbled, gorge-cut Arizona desert north of the Grand Canyon. They settled there at the little shack town of Short Creek, beneath high red cliffs named the Towers of Tummurru...
...first, she had to win a battle for Sister Kenny (Ros had met her in 1940. "She looked like an M4 tank, but her eyes were the loneliest and loveliest I've ever looked into"). Ros became a passionate supporter of the Kenny method of treating infantile paralysis. She begged every one she knew to help her make a movie about the Australian nurse. She finally wore down Charles Koerner, then production head of RKO Radio, and browbeat Dudley Nichols into directing the picture. It was a financial failure, but Ros still ranks...
...room, grey stone house in Montreal, N.C. with picture windows, rhododendrons, a hammock by a mountain stream, a TV set, and a log fence to keep out nosy tourists. But the Rev. William Franklin Graham is at his happiest when he is at his busiest and loneliest: on the platform in a vast amphitheater, or drawling into a mike the Tarheel tag line to his ABC broadcast, "May the Lord bless you real good...
...hard-eyed writing on everything from sports and stuffed shirts to women and war. "Any man is in difficulty," writes Bachelor Cannon, "if he falls in love with a woman he can't knock down with the first punch." After Korea, he reported that "combat soldiers are the loneliest people in the world. What a man does in a period of war he carries around inside of him forever." When Herman Hickman, Yale's 300-lb. football coach resigned, Cannon began a column: "There is enough room in one of Herman Hickman's suits for an average...
Faded Orchids. The Post depicted Walter Winchell as "one of the loneliest men in the world," though "he assumes that he knows everybody and everybody knows him . . . He made the gossip column a respectable newspaper feature . . . but he spends much of his time justifying the existence of gossip columns and trying to prove he is a heavier thinker than Walter Lippmann...