Word: reno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer added that Rita would take the necessary legal steps in "the western states"-presumably a delicate reference to plain old Reno...
Distinction. In Reno, the Nevada State Journal listed: "New modern furnished apartments. Pets welcome. No children...
...from America") for their knowledge of U.S. life outside the stereotypes (Chicago gangsters, Hollywood divorces, Senator Claghorns) purveyed by most of Britain's popular press. Cooke used the occasion of the recent atomic bomb tests to discuss mining and farming in Nevada, which most Britons knew only for Reno and gambling. For an Easter story this year, Cooke is assuming that England knows about Manhattan's Fifth Avenue parade, plans to tell about the Easter rituals of the Ute and Yaqui Indians...
...Hard to Earn. Some of Rimrock Annie's settlements seemed hard earned. Over the years, she claims she has had more than 40 spinal punctures because of her faked skull fractures. Once, in the rest room of the Pacific Greyhound Bus Line in Reno, she apparently took a too realistic spill on her head. She regained consciousness in a hospital. A neurologist, called in on the case, looked her over and ordered a brain operation. Some bone was removed, and she lay close to death for days. For this ordeal she collected her biggest claim...
Some of her telephone consultations have dramatically happy endings. One young man who poured out his troubles to her is now studying for the ministry. A young wife, ready for Reno because of her husband's interest in "a yellow-headed girl," was guided through to a reconciliation. All Julia Shelhamer knows about most of the people who call her is that they seem to get real help from her sure faith and reassuring words: "I know the Lord will answer prayer. Will you pray with me? If you will only confess your sins, God will take that...