Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overnight Righetti became a nationwide sensation. His flock rallied to him and from the courtyard 20 ft. below sent up food to his window in a basket on a rope. Crowds gathered, and Righetti decided he might usefully preach from his window. "I don't know how long I will be here," the pastor shouted below. "It is in God's hands." Communist election campaigners accused the townspeople in Fondi of "religious intolerance," and with a national election close at hand, nobody in the government wanted to stir up the anticlerical issue...
Vanished Blandness. After the stones flew, most of Peru was embarrassed; NIXON STONED IN PERU headlines contrasted markedly with the fun-and-games note of his visits earlier in the week to Paraguay and Bolivia. Lima's Foreign Ministry sent Nixon its regrets, and the San Marcos Student Federation condemned the attack as "barbaric." Nixon deplored the "violent and vocal minority that denied freedom of expression, without which no institution of learning deserves the word 'great.'" In Ecuador, where he went next, university students, traditionally anti-Peruvian, elaborately pointed out to Nixon that Ecuadorian manners are better...
Despite anonymous letters sent to 1,500 advertisers, threatening a "massive crusade" against stores advertising in the Gazette, the boycott has not cost the Gazette a line of advertising, and the paper's circulation is gradually rising again. Said Editor Ashmore, after winning his Pulitzer: "I am confident that in time the Gazette will regain the circulation it has lost, and will emerge from this ordeal stronger than ever...
...spanking line squall worked its way along the Florida Keys and its backlash sent a wet wind whistling into the Key Largo bedroom of Captain Tom Gifford. The stocky man in the double bed rolled over and mumbled: "Southeast wind-that means the tuna are at Cat Cay." More concerned with her own comfort, Mrs. Esther Gifford got out of bed and closed the window. "Damn that man," she grumbled. "He can't stop fishing even in his sleep...
Verdi was born of peasant stock near the town of Busseto in the Po Valley in 1813. When he was 18, the townsfolk sent him to Milan Conservatory, hoping that he could be trained to become Bus-seto's organist and orchestra director. But the conservatory examiners flunked Verdi; his talent for composition, they said, was "passable," but his pianoforte technique was ruined by "a faulty position of the hands and wrists." This "blow to all his pride and hope was so terrible" that Verdi never forgot, never forgave it. Helped by a friendly patron, he buckled down...