Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost no interest in symphonic music. ¶ Despite an increasing sensitivity to public criticism of his golfing, played his first round of golf in five weeks-on the order of his doctor, who felt that Ike was not getting enough exercise. ¶ Spent the weekend at his Catoctin Mountain retreat, Camp David. after a leisurely drive through the autumn-decked countryside of Virginia and Maryland...
Just a few hours before, their son, Corporal Edward S. Dickenson, 23, with the loose-jointed amble of a mountain man, had passed through a gauntlet of curious eyes at Panmunjom, to be handed over to the U.N. command. Taken prisoner Nov. 5. 1950, he was the first of 23 American P.W.s who, having previously refused repatriation, had changed his mind. Sitting down at a table with India's Lieut. Colonel Ujjal Singh and U.S. Marine Major Edward Mackel, Dickenson ostentatiously drew from his pocket two packs of cigarettes-Lucky Strikes and a Chinese brand. He offered a Lucky...
...three-room cabin clinging to the side of Powell Mountain in Cracker's Neck, Va., Bessie Dickenson sat at her quilting one night last week while her husband, Van Buren ("Dave") Dickenson, gaunt and sick at 72, listened to the radio. Suddenly Dave called out: "Bessie, listen to this. It says one of those boys has changed his mind and is coming home. I just know it's Ed." Said Bessie: "I just know it's Ed too, Dave." Later she mused, "Of course, I'll bet every mother listening thought the same thing...
...talk. As Dave roamed around the kitchen, swatting flies, he said: "This is about all I ever do now. Bessie does everything else. She does all the talking for us, but I've got this to say. I never heard the Communist name until this war started. Us mountain folks don't understand things and don't pay much attention to the papers and things. They say my boy is a Communist, but he ain't . . . Why, i'll bet if they had the President over there, they'd make him do anything they...
Dickenson's parents hope to make up for his romantic difficulties. Out on her back porch, Bessie noted that water is now piped to the house from a mountain spring. "If Ed could only see how close the water is to the house," she said. "When Ed was home, the water was up on the hill and we had to carry it down." She moved back into the kitchen and tossed a fat slab of sausage into the frying pan. "We're gonna put on the big pot and the little one too. Keith Marrs is gonna bake...