Word: samsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beauvoir's The Second Sex [TIME, Feb. 23] sounds like a woman desperately in need of a manly man. She bemoans woman's sad and pitiful plight, but forgets that it was a woman who lost Mark Antony the world, laid old Troy in ashes, clipped Samson's mighty locks, and has been clipping men ever since. She says "woman's uplift has barely begun." Speaking as a lone man who grew up in a family of aunts, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, mothers, and now a wife and daughter, I can tell De Beauvoir that woman...
...Samson and Delilah...
...Korea's Hill 217, time hung heavy on the hands of huge, handsome Rifleman William ("Samson") Speakman of the Black Watch. It was the eve of Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5), a day on which Britons remember with firecrackers the anniversary of the 1605 "Gunpowder Plot" on Parliament, and that gave Samson an idea. "Let's build up a nice pile of grenades," he suggested to Sergeant "Dolly" Duncan. "Then, when the Commies come, we'll let 'em have it." Dolly agreed, and the two set to work filling a trench with hand grenades and chuckling...
Along the familiar route of Dock Road, Samson guided his bus as he had more than 1,000 times before. Then suddenly there was a series of bumps and agonizing screams. Samson ground to a stop."What's happened?" his conductress,Dorothy Dunster, called out. "I don't know," said Samson, dismounting and running to the rear. Then, "Oh, my God!" he cried. "What have I done...
...asked one couple. "Yes." "Were his full names Raymond Peter Cross?" "Yes." "Was he aged eleven years?" "Yes." "Thank you. Will you sign here?" And so it went. Trained nurses led a stream of weeping witnesses in & out of the room. Alone and unnoticed at the back stood Driver Samson, twisting his cap round & round in his hands, speaking to nobody. When the 23rd body had been identified, he collapsed...