Word: scar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sound Stage (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Betsy von Furstenberg in No Scar...
...preached his way over some 225,000 miles in 50 years to bring religion back to the people he thought the Church of England had forgotten. Much of John Wesley's journeying was uphill. Gangs of bullies dogged his steps. A heckler's stone gashed a scar upon his brow. But afoot and on horseback, he kept on going, a short little man in a plain black coat, whose hair was silken white most of his adult life. And his labors helped establish a world church of 14½ million members...
...main Mau Mau forces are concentrated in two guerrilla armies, lurking in the forested highlands : one under "General Russia," a scar-faced ex-schoolteacher whose real name is Dedam Kimathi (TIME, Feb. 23); the other under "General China," an elusive desperado who dominates Mt. Kenya. One Mau Mau band, 150 strong and heavily armed, last week at tacked the trading center of Kanderudu, repulsed a British patrol and seized its transport. The soldiers called for air support, and counterattacked. Result: 40 Mau Mau were killed (ten by an African trooper who kept firing his Bren gun even after...
...proceeded in slow, judicial fashion against Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the London-educated Kikuyu who, settlers believe, is the brains behind the Mau Mau. Meanwhile, another tribesman had emerged as leader of the Mau Mau guerrillas. Dedam Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel...
...oilmen knew what to do. They put in a hurry call to the world's most famous oil-fire fighter, 53-year-old Myron Kinley. As marks of his calling, Kinley has a permanently crippled right leg and carries masses of scar tissue all over his body. The call found him at his Bel-Air mansion near Hollywood, where he likes to cool off in his private swimming pool between alarms. Within three hours, he hopped a plane east, carrying nothing but a change of shirt, and socks-and his enormous knowledge of fire fighting...