Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial ended in the tiny courtroom at Lewes, Sussex, the press gallery was packed. When the white-wigged old justice pronounced the dread words, "hanged by the neck until dead," frozen-faced Haigh listened with all the emotion of a man being fined for a traffic offense...
...People spread Barbara's breathlessly ghostwritten story all over Page One. Said she: "I feel bitter about what he [Haigh] has done but I cannot lose my love for him. If he could walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case...
Bombs & Bayonets. The man who planted the big tree was Ryuhei Murayama, art collector, patron of the No dance, and, until his death in 1933 at the age of 83, Japan's most vigorous and imaginative publisher. In the 52 years that lean, white-bearded Murayama ran Asahi, he built it up from a struggling lo?al sheet to a national institution with editions in Osaka, Tokyo and Kokura...
...Force, which likes to think it is supreme in the air, scored a major victory on the ground last week. It taught 120 of its officers, all of whom man desks in the Pentagon, to read faster...
...several moments, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay of Oxford University stared at the departing figure of the young man with the coal scars on his face. The man, a Staffordshire miner named John Elkin, had left school at the age of ten; yet he had come a long way to hear Lindsay lecture on philosophy. "I heartily wish," sighed Lindsay, "that all my university students had a brain as good...