Word: pathways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That lights the pathway but a step ahead
...Silken Pathway. Although Mrs. Roosevelt was traveling as a private citizen, she was treated almost like a visiting head of state. She addressed the Indian Parliament, was feted by scores of officials from Nehru on down. Newspapers ran her every word as front-page news. "Please," she pleaded at one point, when she was questioned about American race problems, "do not read Uncle Tom's Cabin and believe it represents the United States today." Indian Statesman Sir Benegal Rau spoke of her as a U.S. phenomenon comparable to Niagara Falls. In Bombay an admiring Indian textile worker spread...
...Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, where Gushing did much of his work, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Seymour Gray put two & two together. This undesirable effect of ACTH and cortisone on ulcer patients, they reasoned, revealed a second pathway by which emotional stress reaches the stomach: through the pituitary and adrenal glands and their hormones. To test their theory, they gave ACTH to patients whose vagus nerve had been cut, and found that it made their poor stomachs react just as if the vagus nerve had been intact, i.e., the stomachs became overactive, secreted too much...
After that C. Blevins Davis strode forward holding the watering can of wealth. The rocky pathway he had endured for so long turned verdant and fruitful, and headwaiters stepped forth softly to greet him and smile with lowered eyes. He became a patron of the arts and sponsored a show of new German paintings in Munich. He threw a reception and dinner party for his old neighbors, President & Mrs. Harry Truman, at his fabulous Missouri farm, frequently squired daughter Margaret to public functions...
...Bloody Pathway. Kasper Jansen, a kindlier, more contemplative man than his fiery younger brother Koos, laughed a "bitterly defiant laugh" as he left the valley farm he loved. His pregnant wife Anna was more apprehensive. Anna detested violence. Like some of the other Boers with whom the Jansens joined forces in the drive into the north country, she wanted her children to grow up in a peaceful world stripped of racial hatred. But when the Boers reached the Matabele kingdom the natives resisted, and the Boers carved a bloody pathway with their rifles. Anna, giving birth just before the battle...