Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While waiting for that happy day Pleasant Grove's own school board went on with its regular work. For one thing it chose a site for a new high school, and in the process began condemning the land of several prominent property owners. The property owners promptly decided that the only way to stop this sort of thing was to bring the annexation issue to a head. They began circulating petitions calling for a special election, hired a hillbilly band to rally support. When election day came, a few interested citizens dutifully trooped to the polls. By a slim...
Family Trouble. At the age of twelve, he saw his free-spending but improvident father clapped into debtors' prison. Young Charles did a five-month stretch of child labor in a shoe-polish factory in the Strand; years later, he could not walk past the site because it made him cry. In his early 20s, he was jilted by a flirt whom he had worshiped for four years. On the rebound, he married Catherine Hogarth,* a pouter pigeon of a woman who gave him ten children but small joy. This brood he later called "the largest family ever known...
...visiting up here." As soon as this backyard chitchat was reported to Dr. Fritz, the puzzle was solved. The marine veteran of Korea got medical care, and spread the disease no more. The Lake Vera area was sprayed to kill off the last infected mosquitoes and leave the site safe for this year...
...star of the first magnitude!" cried Billy Phelps. "The stuff of genius!" echoed William Rose Benét. The Bridge won the Pulitzer Prize, sold 300,000 copies in a year, was translated into French, German and three other languages. In Peru, tourist guides managed to find a site for the Abridge that Wilder had invented...
After Louis died in 1774, his hideaway fell on hard times. Louis XVI never used it, and during the French Revolution the royal residences at Choisy-le-Roi were wrecked. For a time, a locksmith occupied the site of the Petit Château; later a tile factory was built on the grounds. No one dreamed that so much as two stones of the old building, with its rich trim and fine, high windows, were left standing...