Word: manitoba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a brand new citizenship and six months back pay, John Wolpe sailed for North America. A veterans' counselor advised him to take college aptitude tests and he placed as a sophomore at the University of Manitoba. He graduated with top honors and came to Harvard on a fellowship in the fall of 1949. As a teacher here he rapidly became a favorite, for his sections were among the livliest and most informative in the French department. At the same time his own graduate studies netted him an unbroken and awesome string...
...Manitoba, Gordon M. Churchill, 52, schoolteacher turned lawyer, who won the Distinguished Service Order as a World War II lieutenant, colonel...
...Also in Manitoba, Walter Dinsdale, 35, assistant professor of social economy at Brandon College, who hired a plane equipped with a loudspeaker to harangue prairie voters...
...While eating lunch on Manitoba's Brereton Lake, Jim Turner of Winnipeg let an orange slip overboard. Before he could recover it the fruit disappeared. A few minutes later, Turner heard a violent threshing in the reeds near shore, rowed over and gaffed a northern pike that was slowly choking to death with an orange stuck in its throat...
From a makeshift command post in the Manitoba legislature building last week, a composed, greying soldier in the red-tabbed battledress of a brigadier defended besieged Winnipeg against the city's worst flood in a century. His orders flowed by field telephone and radio to 50,000 men sweating on 15 miles of soggy, sandbagged dikes along the surging Red River of the North. Occasionally he hopped into a helicopter for a hurried look at a new danger point. By week's end, as hope mounted that the main crisis had been met with only two lives lost...