Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Being the front yard of American power, the park has seen a lot of casual history. Thomas Jefferson walked over to the Madison house on one occasion to pay a call on his successor. Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Seward, was gravely wounded in his house on the square the night that Lincoln was shot...
...Trial of Aaron Burr, Justice Marshall confined the dictum of non-disclosure of communications that was set forth in Marbury v. Madison. The 1809 U.S. v. Burr decision cited...
...think they're worse than the Government." Then he grew nostalgic. "The rallies we used to hold in Madison Square Garden were glorious. No one has ever been able to reproduce those rallies. They have rallies there, but noth ing like the old days...
...Then I heard about a sudden opening teaching English at Wisconsin, and I took it just like that. I was going for broke." She says that her 326-mile weekly trip between Detroit and Madison represents "an academic separation" (which also chews up most of her $12,000 salary), and "there never was any question but that Henry would take care of the children [two daughters of six and eight]. They have been very cheerful so long as I turn up in Detroit every Thursday night." Mrs. Pratt has never missed a homecoming-or a class...
...this something?" she asked, happily noting that a few years ago these same 16,500 people could not have squeezed into a hall even as cavernous as Madison Square Garden...