Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first big coups took place in the dead of night when he led 29 men through a maze of picket lines to the headquarters of Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton, captured the whole post. First thing the Union General knew about the raid was when Mosby pulled up his nightshirt, slapped him on the behind...
...married her in 1925), Columnist Pyle roved the highways & byways of the Western Hemisphere. He crisscrossed the continent 35 times, wore out three automobiles. He wrote about anything that took his fancy: soap, dogs, doctors, the art of rolling a cigaret, hotel bellhops, hotel rooms, how to build a picket fence, his troubles with a stuck zipper in his pants. He went to Alaska and wrote about being shaved by a woman barber in the mining camp of Platinum, near the Arctic Circle. He went to Molokai and wrote about the lepers. He flew around South America. And for most...
...clock. After the winter they had spent in boarding school, the comfortable, red-&-white clapboard house in Connecticut's quiet Litchfield Hills was strange, lonely, still. The nearest neighbor lived half a mile away. Behind the house, a dark wood stretched away to a hillside. Beyond the white picket fence in front was a little-used highway...
...high bookcase in the living room. The little boys looked at their mother; they wandered around the house, played upstairs and downstairs, wished that someone would come. By 10 o'clock they were hungrier than they had ever been before. They went out through the white picket fence and stood watching the quiet highway. A few cars went by, but no one stopped when they, waved. When the phone rang, Peter stood on tiptoe and managed to lift the receiver. But he could not quite speak into the mouthpiece and he finally let the receiver fall back...
...year-old French lad joined us and clapped his hands in delight. An old man picked up a wooden plank and tried to crush the skull of one of a file of German prisoners who were being paraded down the thoroughfare. Men and women leaned on their picket fences and smiled ironically at their erstwhile masters now humiliated before their eyes...