Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked to react to "second-class citizen" as a "stock phrase," the majority considered it--and rejected it--as a description of the commuter, the most typical comment being "nonsense" followed by one of more exclamation points. Others, however, saw a "grain of truth." "Many commuters suffer from an inferiority complex . . . and show it," wrote one, and another snapped out: "I gather that as a member of Dudley I belong to an underprivileged group of some sort." A third non-resident observed that "I haven't come up against scorn; what I do resent is the automatic pity...
...Flag, Up Rent. Having been brought up in this sort of atmosphere, Sooi saw that the case of Lots 91 and 92 could mean more to him than just easy foraging land for his pigs. He saved up his money after the war, in 1952 bought the nine houses from the railway. He promptly hoisted the Belgian flag, demanded that his new tenants pay Belgian rents rather than the lower Dutch rents. Later, he decided that since there was still so much confusion as to the nationality of the land, he would declare it "Sooi" soil until the bosses...
...their Roman holiday, Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret saw Pope John XXIII in a 20-minute private audience. They conversed in French, but it was later reported that the jovial Pontiff told his royal visitors: "English is the next language I shall learn!" One afternoon, before getting elegant for a dinner party, Margaret ventured forth for cocktails with a new beau. Italians were quick to read budding romance into her frequent dates with tall, retiring Prince Henry of Hesse, 31, a Protestant and a scion of the Italian House of Savoy. Henry, a talented painter...
...Ever Heard? Baron Clements saw his first bullfight when he was ten, and "right then I decided that what I wanted to do most was fight bulls." Writing in the sixth grade on his life's ambition, he drew an F-minus and a stern note from his teacher: "Baron, I expect you to stay in this afternoon and write a reasonable theme. Who ever heard of people these days being bullfighters...
...with wiggly red pen lines began to arrive from monitoring stations in the U.S. The cosmic-ray count that they showed was not unusual. But after two or three weeks, tapes began to dribble in from stations in South America. "As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most remarkable situation." Over the U.S., where the satellite swooped low, the rate was about 40 counts a second. But over the equatorial region, where the satellite was rising to its highest point, the counting rates were much smaller. During some two-minute stretches there were no counts...