Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian tent on the outskirts of Stamford, N.Y., where he wrote a tract titled "Woman as Angel and Fiend." He was also, he claimed, founder of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, vice president of the Patriotic and Benevolent Order of the Sons of America, and a pillar of the Order of Good Templars. When he relaxed his temperance so far as to be unable to churn out the next installment of a popular serial, "ghosts" carried on until his head was clear again. On one such occasion, he awoke to find that a ghost had maliciously killed...
...Long? Duff, Lodge & Co. were as certain as ever that things would never reach that pass. But the strain of waiting was beginning to tell. In Kansas, which claims Ike as a favorite son, one Eisenhower pillar said last week: "If Ike is not available, we will move over to Taft. The important thing to do is to win the election." Said another: "People come to me and ask, 'How long can we wait...
...tendency has existed-as it still exists-to regard [the citizen soldier] as an auxiliary rather than the main pillar supporting our national military strength," writes MacArthur. "Only in rare instances have his views been sought or considered in the shaping of high policy governing the conduct of war or plans to secure the peace." MacArthur finds civilian control of the military especially important in the light of the present enormous peacetime buildup of the armed forces...
...brutal crime. The murderer seized the ten-year-old child by the legs, and smashed its head against a stone pillar. The skull was shattered, the right eye was knocked out and there was a deep cut across the lower lip. Both legs were broken at the thigh and the left knee was dislocated. Then the murderer set out to prove that the crime was all an unfortunate accident...
...Whose father, the late Jacob Adler, was a pillar of the Yiddish theater...