Word: processional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the city room of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News last week marched a strange procession. In the lead was Dr. William Bluford Adamson, wearing brown alligator cowboy boots and carrying a case not much bigger than a portable typewriter. He was followed by his wife, two medical technicians and...
Printer-Foreman Bill Meroney was part of a second procession: Reporter News workers having their hearts checked. Mrs. Adamson made sure that Meroney's questionnaire was completed ("Has anybody in your family ever had heart disease? Have you ever had rheumatic fever or scarlet fever?") After a blood-pressure...
Prophet of P.P. Fired from his bookstore job. Gordon at last gets a bellyful of real poverty. He spends most of his time lying on a foul mattress and staring at the ceiling. He watches the bugs march in stately procession round his garret-but not very often, because the...
History may place the death, pain and tears as but passing stages in the 20th-century's long funeral procession of British colonialism. There came Ireland, India, Palestine, Kenya, Malaya, and now Cyprus. But the special tragedy of Cyprus is that it involves friends, and that the suffering should...
Gadding about California with time out to watch some rocket tests, roughhewn Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson put on his dinner jacket one evening and showed up in Pasadena at the coronation ball honoring Pasadena City College coed Joan Culver, 18, new queen of the Tournament of Roses, which adds...