Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spreading oak of a lad (204 lbs., 6 ft. ½ in.), Johansson has risen far since he began as a street paver in his native Goteborg. At 26 he swoops along the same streets in a white Thunderbird, bosses $250,000 worth of equipment in the earth-moving business that he runs on the side. The son of a manual laborer, Ingo became the pride of Sweden with a simple public weapon: a devastating right...
...Right Rev. Arthur Carl Lichtenberger. 59. sat in a carved oak throne 22 ft. high to hear the formal words of induction pronounced by his predecessor. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill: "I, Henry Knox, do induct and install you, Right Reverend Father in God, Arthur, into the office of President Bishop, with all its rights, dignities, honors and privileges: in which may our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth forevermore. Amen...
...teammates could help with key blocks, but Army's sinewy, scholarly All-American Halfback Pete Dawkins scored anyway. Superstar Dawkins. whose home is Royal Oak, Mich., was one of four from the Great Lakes area elected to the coveted Rhodes scholarships at Oxford, elatedly announced that he would study philosophy, politics, economics...
...dogged one-fourth who wanted escape from the programed life, however expensive it might prove to be, stepped up their campaigning, got valuable assistance from their official landlords. When a federal law was passed allowing residents of the atomic cities of Richland and Oak Ridge, Tenn. to buy property, G.E. happily put 4,800 homes on the market, sold all but 600, followed up by selling commercial property also. After another petition for incorporation was circulated, Richlanders poured out last July to approve...
Before Christmas Comes. That old slugging partner of Khrushchev's, West Germany's oak-hearted Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, was again being subjected to the crudest of taunts and the hardest of tests. He was under pressure from the so-called "flexibles" of his own party, who have been criticizing his refusal to permit any negotiation with the East German puppet regime. They say that Germany can never be reunified without talks. Adenauer sees clearly that such talks will not end in reunification, but in recognition of the "two Germanys." Grudgingly, the old man dispatched a reply to Moscow...