Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place that might serve for guidance. Back came Rome Bureau Chief Walter Guzzardi with the word that, while covering a political story in Libya, he took a day off to visit Leptis Magna, and was so impressed that he took some of his own color pictures. He sent along his take, thinking that it "might help show what the place looks like...
...told, Nixon's performance was an extraordinary phenomenon in the new history of diplomacy and a striking vindication of the President who sent him. First, it was a performance of sheer physical endurance that only a fairly young and rugged man could have withstood: It was a grueling test of his person-to-person debating skill, of his way with crowds, of his knowledge and understanding of the Soviet Union and-fundamentally-of his knowledge and understanding of his own nation. To the thousands of Russians and Poles who saw him, Nixon was the personification of a kind...
...roar and devastation of World War II, which crippled the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor, sent a deeper shock through Hawaii's way of life. Some first families, fearful of invasion, put up valuable land holdings for sale at bargain prices, and the Chinese were there to snap up the bargains and get the outsiders' first big toehold in real estate. But most affected by the shock were the thousands of Japanese-Americans whose ancestry made them suroect, especially to faraway Washington and the apprehensive military. Intensely loyal to the U.S., crushed by the restrictions of martial...
That was the way things usually did work out for James Moore Tatum. He won. One of nine children-and the last of five left tackles-born to a merchant-banker-farmer of varying fortune in McColl, S.C., Tatum was sent to the University of North Carolina by an uncle, was rugged enough (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) to get an All-America mention or two in his senior year on Coach Carl Snavely's powerhouse. After graduating in 1935, Tatum signed on as Snavely's assistant, followed him to Cornell, and laid the foundations...
...hands sticky. He sees people shrewdly, and can set down small scenes with great poignancy. The episode that ends the book is a masterpiece-even though it parodies the whole novel and the entire Southern school of literary fungus munchers. After the hero dies, a dotty old aunt is sent to an asylum, where a doctor sets her to knitting a scarf. "The scarf is measured on Monday of each week," reports Author Feibleman, "and this is not a simple matter. It is now thirty-five feet long...