Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deeply Troubled. Virginia's countryside was indeed something to love last week. In the Shenandoah Valley, apples clustered rich and red in Senator Harry Byrd's vast orchards near Berryville. In the famed Tidewater region, haze shimmered blue over sparkling crystal estuaries. In the west, the beech's first gold and the oak's first russet welcomed autumn from the Appalachian crests. In the tangled Wilderness, dusk cast early purple shadows round Lindsay Almond's family farm land...
Little White School. Almond was born in Charlottesville on June 15, 1898, the second of the five children of a Southern Railway locomotive engineer who retired, after a 1901 head-on collision, to his 250-acre family farm in rolling Orange County. There, near the tiny village of Locust Grove on the Chancellorsville battlefield, just four miles from the Wilderness thicket where Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own men, Lindsay Almond grew up. Lindsay did farm chores, worked nights with his mother at the kitchen table, learned to read and write even before he trudged...
...March, who was making his legitimate stage debut. Tackling the role in which Paul Douglas scored on Broadway, he proved he could do more than fire questions at TV contestants in isolation booths. In fact, he gave a smooth and consistent performance. His only serious lapse came near the close of the first act, where he had a heart-to-heart talk with his young son and reminisced about his dead wife. This is hard to pull off, but the writing is so fine that it still emerged as one of the two most memorable scenes in the play...
...Near the end of the War the traditional "Ivy" founders of the sport began to show an uneasiness about the hold football had over Americans. In an attempt to curb certain practices adopted by colleges anxious to become football powers, the heads of Harvard, Yale and Princeton met and set forth the "Presidents' Agreement," which outlined specific rules to be followed in recruiting and giving aid to players...
...noon, Harold has worked his way to Sage's where he invests in two dwarfed loaves of French bread (one thin dime apiece). From Brattle Street he ventures to Radcliffe to watch workmen labor over Ada M. Comstock, and eats his loaves of bread. There is a near-by drinking fountain...