Word: sided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customers are just as pleased. Postman Frank Derrick ($4,000 a year) lived on Chicago's South Side, decided to move to suburban Park Terrace. Says his wife Geraldene: "We didn't have a down payment. But Frank was determined. He took out a $20 bill and handed it to the salesman and said, 'This is to show that I mean business.' We started to save for the down payment on the budget plan and finally got a G.I. mortgage." The Derricks now have a brick, three-bedroom ranch house with two TV sets...
Yachtsman Cornelius Shields, "the grey fox of Long Island Sound"). Both Suzy and Shields had slipped out of Paris-quietly, deftly, on the sunny side of discreet. "Suzy is just taking a vacation," said her French husband, who has been seeing her now and then. "Ah oui," said the gossips knowingly. Meanwhile, sentimental fans remembered Suzy as the young heroine of Ten North Frederick, who responds to the passion of her roommate's father, Gary Cooper. And, coincidentally, Actor Cooper, 58, is the real-life son-in-law of Paul V. Shields...
Physicist Edward Teller traversed the north side of Oregon's Mount Hood with his son Paul, 16, and daughter Susan Wendi, 13. Darkness trapped them near a swollen stream, and the "Father of the H-Bomb" thought the water looked too heavy to be forded at night. When rescuers reached them in the cold predawn, Teller assured them: "We were not lost. We simply got a late start." Said one rescuer ambiguously: "Dr. Teller had a good case of the shakes...
...Talmud, and the lines of division in modern Judaism. Again and again Wouk draws on his personal experience. After describing the negative injunctions of Sabbath observance, which cuts off the outer world from Friday's sundown to "the end of twilight on Saturday," he demonstrates its positive side in terms of a Sabbath during the crisis-fraught readying of a Broadway play. "Leaving the gloomy theatre, the littered coffee cups, the shouting stagehands, the bedevilled director, I have come home. It has been a startling change, very like a brief return from the wars. My wife and my boys...
...world waited; crowds gathered in the streets of Moscow to watch the moon sailing coldly overhead. U.S. radio receivers were on the wrong side of the earth, but at Jodrell Bank the beeping continued while the moon climbed higher. As the predicted moment approached, the beeps wavered slightly. Then they stopped. In Moscow the radio stopped its program for an announcement. After an unexplained delay (perhaps for rechecking), the radio played a few bars of the International and the announcer said: "At 00:02:24 Moscow time [5:02:24 E.D.T.] the second Soviet cosmic rocket reached the surface...