Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's greatest rivers is the Mekong, which rises in Tibet and flows* 2,800 miles to the sea at the southeastern corner of Indo-China. The Mekong delta is a 100-mile-long wedge of swampland, rice fields, palm trees and mangroves, called the Cis Bassac. "The Devil does not want for water here," say the French who use the Cis Bassac as a base for operations against Communist guerrillas infesting the thick Foret Inondee to the west and the marshes of the Plaine des Jones to the east. Fifteen times in the last year the French have...
...West Palm Beach driving range photographers paused to take some action pictures of lean, wiry old Connie (Cornelius McGillicuddy) Mack. At 88, still limber as a pitcher's glove and lean-flanked as a rookie outfielder, "Mr. Mack" had decided to improve his golf game. With a little coaching, he was already smashing out 175-yard drives, had plenty of time, having closed out a half century as manager of his Philadelphia Athletics (Connie Mack, president) to learn the finer points of the short pitch and the downhill putt...
...Florida's well-to-do Palm Beach, St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church was badly down at heel. It owed a $47,000 mortgage, had been damaged in last fall's hurricane. In January, Catholic friends of Charles Francis Coe, longtime Satevepost fictioneer and editor of the Palm Beach Post-Times, asked for his help...
Temple Israel of West Palm Beach needed a new synagogue. Said Coe: "I didn't see why we couldn't help them, too. I'm for churches. They do a lot of good . . ." Last week he and his committee held a second auction, raised $65,000. Said Washington's visiting Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld: "The real test of good will in a community is action." Said Socker Coe: "I believe a good deal of bigotry was broken down by the committee . . . There's a general attitude of friendliness that wasn't there before...
...West; pictures of the President lolling on warm sand, he thought, would not look well beside pictures of G.I.s slogging through mud and snow in Korea. But along about the first of next month, Harry Truman might leave Washington and head West. Instead of blue water and palm trees he would look at guns, planes and tanks. He would tour factories and arsenals as the Commander in Chief inspecting the U.S.'s military might. No one could object to that. And somewhere along the road, say in sun-baked Arizona, he might pull into a siding...