Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Summons. On the stroke of 6 o'clock, the President acted. After talking briefly to all five men, he summoned Ben Fairless to his office alone and told him, in the blunt terms of a schoolmaster settling a schoolyard fight, that he wanted the strike stopped...
...wartime years had left their mark. Weeds grew around once immaculate service stations, in many a gravel drive and rural schoolyard. Vermont's neglected pastures were overrun with purple bergamot, and Louisiana's bayous with orchidlike water hyacinth. Fireweed grew on steep acres of newly logged land in the Western foothills. But in its broad sweep, in color and loom of hill, the land was unchanged...
...last week's show there was contemporary regionalism, fantasy, plain reporting. One report with gently humorous overtones was 37-year-old Jean-Charles Faucher's Cour d'Ecole (Schoolyard), an action-crowded view of French Canadian boys at play (see cut), in which the figures resembled waves of water bugs contending for three black beans-their footballs...
...fellow prisoners-Poles, Frenchmen, a few Englishwomen and some British sailors-she was a source of fascination. She never took her Army bonnet off in public. In the thrice-daily exercise periods (two hours in the morning, four in the afternoon, one after supper) she strode determinedly around the schoolyard, her secretary always three paces behind. The secretary would advance to her superior's side only on a curt signal, when Colonel Booth had an idea she wanted to discuss. On one hot day, when the SS men gave the internees permission to put on their lightest clothing, Colonel...
When all the cars had made several trips in and out of the schoolyard, and the woman in slack became accustomed to running in and out the door and the men with bandages had got used to walking up and down, and the big dog didn't come back any more, everyone began to enjoy his job. The drivers enjoyed letting their motors run and disregarding traffic lights. The faces of the men with the bandages on their arms lost their strained looks, after they had walked off their Sunday dinners. Nor did they look so sheepish when they...