Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page 50th anniversary number, and tried something harder: picking the top hits of the half century. The list, chosen by Columnist Jim Walsh on the basis of originality, catchiness or sales figures: In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, School Days, Casey Jones, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I Want a Girl, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, St. Louis Blues, Over There and God Bless America...
...Christmas greeting to the world, Pope Pius XII proposed a three-point disarmament plan, composed of: 1) banning nuclear tests, 2) renouncing the use of nuclear weapons, and 3) establishing an armament control system. After running the Pope's proposals through the propaganda mill, the Communist press exploited the first two points, which the Soviet Union favors, and ignored the third, which the U.S. considers essential. (Part of the U.S. press, by failing to read carefully the Pope's intricate prose, distorted his message almost as much as did the Communists.) Last week, the Voice of America acclaimed...
...Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars, went to work in a cotton mill when she was eight (she had been a midwife before that). At eleven, she left home to work in a beauty parlor...
...Political "Huh." Adams was practically pushed into politics. Lincoln, a one-industry town of 1,500, was dominated by the Parker-Young Co. In 1940, says Martin Brown, then Parker-Young's president, "some of the men at the mill said we ought to send a better type down to the Capitol. They said the men we had sent there were not attending to business." Brown called a meeting of about 25 company officials and suggested that Adams be put up for the legislature.* The proposal was agreed upon. Next day Brown walked into Adams' office and said...
November. The Board of Overseers will move into the new house. Thousands mill in the Square waiting for the Yale riot. When nothing happens, the thousands, of proctors, deans, tutors, Yard cops, and police leave. Fire Chief Kilfoyle is now in California, heading for Kenosha...