Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this-plus 23 other arrests and two other interludes in the clink-were behind him. After such escapades, Bossy, three times mayor of Newburyport, hadn't been able to be re-elected since 1935, though he had tried six times...
...sets of Mr. Cube dice, neatly boxed in a miniature sugar carton together with rules for a new game called TATE & STATE. Each of Tate's dice has one of the letters S T A t E and a portrait of Mr. Cube on one of its six sides. The rules of play are like those of plain poker dice except for two special conditions. Anyone throwing Mr. Cube and T-A-t-E has achieved "free enterprise" and wins. Anyone throwing S-T-A-t-E reaches "stagnation" and automatically loses...
...afternoon last week 55-year-old Grotewohl was taken to the Soviet Military Hospital in Eastern Berlin's Ober-Schoneweide suburb. Six Soviet soldiers escorted him to the second floor suite usually reserved for Russian generals. The Communist Radio Berlin said Grotewohl had the grippe. Privately, top Communist leaders said he had a nervous breakdown. According to Berlin gossip, Grotewohl had long been afraid that the Russians were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail...
...shortly after his mother's death, José gave his fortune to charity and went off to Peru to enter the Franciscan order. Six years later, after he was ordained a priest in Lima's San Francisco Monastery, police were called out to control the admirers surging into the church to hear him sing his first Mass...
...west Texas, the five or six daily editorials in the Abilene Reporter-News (circ. 35,241) are often as important conversational topics as oil, cotton, cattle and sandstorms. The folksy, shrewd comments on politics, literature, science and almost everything else are the work of Frank Grimes, the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), cadaverous editor of the Reporter-News. Last week, Editorialist Grimes, 58, celebrated his 35th year on the paper by summing up "15,000,000 words later" everything he had learned about editorial writing...