Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House passed (348-2) and sent to the Senate a bill to give sick railroaders another couple of pep pills by 1) providing Federal Government guarantees for private loans to rail companies for maintenance and improvement, and 2) letting the ICC, rather than state boards, pass on discontinuance of money-losing services, such as commuter trains that run nearly empty...
Year by Year. For three months doctors and nurses in the Darwin hospital tended the boy that everyone came to know as "the Kupang Kid." Then the government, whose "white Australia" policy bars Asian immigrants, brusquely announced that, once restored to health, Bas Wie would be sent back to Timor. Darwin citizens bombarded the Immigration Minister with protests. "A kid with guts like that," said one, "needs encouragement." Yielding to pressure, the government gave Bas Wie a one-year certificate of exemption. Each year after that the certificate was renewed...
...Aussies, Bas Wie soon found, were all that he had remembered them to be. The Northern Territory Administrator himself gave him a home and sent him to school. In return, Bas Wie worked about the official residence, each Christmas presented the Administrator with an intricately carved ship model he had made himself. When the Administrator was transferred, a Darwin couple adopted Bas Wie, and he got a job as a clerk at the Commonwealth Works Department. There, a year and a half ago, 24-year-old Bas Wie met a pretty young white girl from Perth. After a year-long...
...newspaper El Comercio called on Lima's Catholic women to congregate at Santa Rosa Church, a few blocks from the presidential palace, "as an expression of sorrow and regret before our Holy Father Pius XII in this hour of trial to our faith that has sent a shudder through the hearts of Peru's Catholics. We will pray for our church, for the sanctity of matrimony." Five thousand women-many from Lima's top society-heeded the call, parading past the presidential palace and the cathedral and chanting hymns...
...Congratulations on your baby. But since you want this baby to have all the time and care you are able to give, you probably prefer not to have another too soon." In the past year, 14,000 pamphlets with these words have been sent to Ohio parents in and around Toledo. The sender: Toledo's Planned Parenthood League. Last December, soon after his tenth child was born, William Kunisch, a Roman Catholic mailman, received such a pamphlet in his own mail, promptly decided that a rebuttal was needed. With the help of his wife and the advice of Father...