Word: pendleton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slender, 19-year-old marine reported for duty last week at the carpenter shop of Camp Pendleton, Calif. For one of the mightiest small fights in World War II, Pfc. Andrew Jackson ("Duke") Carter Jr. of Paducah, Tex. had only one mark to show; he had a deep red scar on his right hand...
Midnight Drums. In Pendleton, Ore., Chief Jim Kanine of the Umatilla, Cayuse and Wallawalla tribes, ordered that during the cafe curfew tom-toms at tribal dances must be silenced at midnight...
This leap would have scared lesser women than Mildred McAfee. She had to step into the shoes of the late Ellen Fitz Pendleton, in itself a terrifying job. Miss Pendleton had ruled the conservative New England college for 25 years and was tenderly remembered by Wellesley alumnae. Miss Mac stepped carefully. She started no revolutions. She was smooth and diplomatic, with just the right touch of tartness...
Dead Reckoning. In Westerville, Ohio, the coroner decided to investigate when a friend reported that Mrs. Maclora Pendleton, when asked how her ailing husband George was feeling, had said: "Oh, he's been dead a week...
...order." They disappeared into the hills and lived by rustling, moonshining and looting. But the vast majority of Confederate veterans went to work in the rubble of their ruined homes, on exhausted acres choked with nettles and burdock. The struggle was common to officers and men alike: "General Pendleton plowed his Lexington farm in clothes so ragged that passers-by took him for a hired hand. General Elliott peddled fish and oysters"-a forerunner of the host of apple-sellers of post-World War I. After Reconstruction, individual states began to provide old soldiers' homes and small pensions...