Word: prow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unhappy Fact. Boston's prow-chinned Archbishop Richard J. Gushing then made a pronouncement. Boston College authorities, said he, had been right in firing the teachers ("I do not see what else [they] . . . could have done"). Furthermore, the newspaper appearance of Father Feeney's name, Archbishop Gushing said, "obliges me to reveal the unhappy fact that Father Feeney has been defying the orders of his legitimate superiors for more than seven months and since Jan. 1 of this year has not possessed the faculties of this archdiocese." In plainer words, Father Feeney had been denied the right...
...first broadside of the 1948 presidential campaign. Before 1,300 cheering Ohio Republicans in Columbus, U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft† opened his "campaign last week by raking the Truman Administration from prow to poop, blasting its domestic policy and its foreign policy and praising the Republican Congress for crimping the powers of the executive. He exposed himself to the hot fire of counterattack, but that would hardly dismay Ohio's Taft...
Suddenly one of the crew shouted something to the helmsman, but his warning was drowned by the children's singing. The launch plowed into a rusty underwater steel pylon, placed there by the Germans as an anti-submarine obstacle. For a moment the launch's prow hung in the air, then the stern slid swiftly under water. Without a punctuating pause, the children's songs became screams...
...Curran was reelected president-the Reds did not seriously oppose him. Two Curran men squeaked in with him. But the Reds held strategic control of N.M.U.'s governing board with three men: Ferdinand Smith, hard-eyed Jamaican Negro, reelected secretary; weary-looking Howard McKenzie, veteran organizer, and prow-chinned Joseph Stack, bullyboy of the New York waterfront, elected vice presidents...
...gold-and-plaster Virgin moved triumphantly. Twentieth-Century France hailed the religious procession, a war-delayed commemoration of the Virgin's 1,300th anniversary. The faithful were as reverent now as on that miraculous Sunday in 638 when the fishermen of Boulogne found the Virgin, then a prow on an unmanned ship that sailed to anchor despite the harbor's shoals. They were as ardent now as when mighty Charlemagne, or splendid Francis I, or Sun King Louis XIV made pilgrimage to her shrine...