Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath the mighty oak roof that Richard II built, on the spot where Charles I was condemned to the scaffold and Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector, where Britain's dead kings are mourned and its new ones feted, Sir Winston Churchill stood last week and received his country's heartfelt tributes on his 80th birthday. Before him, vast Westminster Hall (hard by the House of Commons) was packed with top-hatted peers and tiaraed peeresses, members of Parliament and their wives, from closest allies to such old antagonists as Aneurin Bevan...
...assembly of the Nobel Foundation was about to bestow literature's most distinguished accolade on the products of his pencil. This week, "for his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration," the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded to Ernest Miller Hemingway, originally of Oak Park, III, and later of most of the world's grand and adventurous places...
While Hemingway was perhaps never a millionaire,*the playboy title often fitted him. Oak Park, Ill. (pop. 63,529) saw the earliest Hemingway-the versatile, outdoors-loving son of respected Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. Later Oak Park's people wondered, as one of them put it, "how a boy brought up in Christian and Puritan nurture should know and write so well of the devil and the underworld." (He was born a Congregationalist, became a practicing Roman Catholic, now apparently does not go to church). The city room of the Kansas City Star saw him fresh...
...move toward cooperative maintenance became necessary after a Corporation decision in 1953 ordering liquidation of the station because of expense. At the same time, the Corporation voted $300,000 for large-scale rehabilitation of of astronomical facilities and equipment at the University's Cambridge and Oak Ridge (Agassiz) Observatories...
DANIEL B. DALLAS Royal Oak, Mich...