Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold morning in Moscow, 38 years ago today, a mixture of snow and rain soaking the mourners, John Reed's coffin was laid to rest next to the Kremlin Wall--alongside those who had given their lives for the Bolshevik Revolution...
...these words would have had little meaning for John Reed. As poet, war correspondent, Communist, and Harvardman, John Reed saw life as one Big Game. You could lose the game, but it wasn't worth dying for. Life was too exciting...
Twenty-four hours after entering Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center for his annual head-to-toe physical examination, a ruddy, smiling Dwight Eisenhower-onetime victim of a heart attack (1955), ileitis (1956) and mild stroke (1957)-came out with the pronouncement from his doctors that he is in "an excellent state of health...
...Best, demonstrated that father really does. So it was sure as apple pie that other members of the family would gather at the festive board. Already lined up this season: one homey fracas in which mom knows best, another in which grandpa takes over the Socratic chores. ¶Donna Reed (ABC, Wed., 9-9:30 p.m.), mother of two, wife of a doctor, is an inoffensive archetype of the mythical figure whose chuckleheadedness is just a cheery wrapper around an infallible intuitive wisdom. In time for the final embrace, she usually squashes at least half a dozen domestic crises (mostly...
...there is, after all, the wife of the "ugly American," a lady readers will enjoy meeting. Looking over the situation in Sarkhan, she decides that the people's backs are bent because they use short brooms. Hustling into action, she discovers a 5-ft. reed instead of a 2-ft. reed to be used for broom handles, a technological revolution for which the villagers reward her with a small shrine bearing the inscription. "In memory of the woman who unbent the backs of our people...