Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oak Park...
...Black Rod! Black Rod!" rang the cry down Westminster's vaulted corridors. The Commons' heavy oak doors clashed shut ahead of the Queen's messenger as they had for 300 years at that cry, in a traditional assertion of independence dating from the time that Charles I invaded the House of Commons with soldiers in an attempt to arrest Hampden, Pym and three other members in 1642. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked...
...Administration has also revived last year's plan to get the Government out of the business of running two "atom cities"-Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Richland, Wash. At the request of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Democratic heads of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy last week introduced bills to end Government ownership and operation of Oak Ridge and Richland. The responsibility for schools, streets, etc. would be handed over to local residents, eventually saving the Federal Government upwards of $1,500,000 yearly...
ALBERT F. COOK Oak Park, Mich...
Then the scene shifted. The lights went up and the stage expanded to reveal the glittering, oak-paneled prime ministerial dining room inside. Portraits of Wellington, Nelson, Pitt and Fox stared down from the walls as the guests took their seats. Garbed in full uniform or official court dress, some 50 of them were ranged along the U-shaped table. There were the bemedaled Generals Montgomery and Alexander, who had led great armies under Winston Churchill's direction during World War II. There was quiet, modest Clem Attlee, his longtime colleague and longtime opponent. There, gracious and smiling...