Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Night in Jail. After graduation from Harvard, cum laude, Chris enrolled at the Columbia University architecture school and New York's School of Applied Design. But at his class's first reunion back at Harvard, in 1916, a classmate who was about to leave for a minor post in the U.S. embassy in Berlin told the aspiring architect about another opening at the embassy, urged him to apply for it. A week later young Herter sailed for Europe with his friend...
...lofty post during the next two years, gentlemanly Christian Herter will need that capacity to be, now and then, tough and hard-and a touch of serendipity may be useful...
Moving into Miss Borden's present post, Barbara Miller Solomon will become Director of Radcliffe Seminars and of Women's Archives. Now associate professor of History at Wheelock College, Mrs. Solomon graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1940, and took her Ph.D. from the College in 1953. In 1956 she published two books...
...more perplexing problem centers around third base. Shepard has yet to discover who is his best man for the fielding duties at that position. Both Chet Boulris and Mo Balboni's gloves have left something to be desired, and the latest possibility for the post is Charlie Ravenel...
...regular floggings. In all the district his word is law, and since he is close to seven feet tall and can break a man's jaw with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil-affairs officer named Major Bluphocks arrives, the stage...