Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prodigal had been driven from the house, years before, for the worst of South African crimes-he had fathered a child by black Joseph's sister. The girl with her little Bastaard, "yellow and wrinkled like a stone," had been sent packing. Big Joseph, on a pilgrimage as painful as that of the black pastor in Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country, had made his pitiful trek to discover what happened to his sister and her child. After failing in his search, he had returned to make a moral judgment of the whites who had wronged...
Republicans were quick to point out that there are two sides to the issue, that the leading Democratic candidates have had their own bouts with illness and the surgeon's knife. In the past four years, Adlai Stevenson had had four stints in hospitals: for removal of a kidney stone a month before the Democratic National Convention in 1952, for treatment and then surgery for a second kidney stone in 1954 (he takes pills in the hope of preventing more stones), for a bout with bronchial pneumonia (five days in the hospital) in 1955. Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington...
...operating room to the President's anxious family was Dr. Snyder. Mamie, John and Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the President's youngest brother (see EDUCATION), waited in the Williamsburg-green living room of the President's suite. Outside the hospital, newsmen clambered on a fountain, adorned by stone penguins (which were not at the moment spouting water) to get an angled glimpse into the operating room. They saw only the dramatic shadow-show of surgeons at work...
...grounds and for the peace and pleasure of its retired and vacationing members. Last week 482 commissioners, representing more than 810,000 members, 3,806 congregations, gathered there for the Southern Presbyterians' 96th general assembly. The commissioners (including ten Negroes) debated and prayed for six days in grey stone Anderson Auditorium, partly by act. partly by refusal to act. put Southern Presbyterianism on record...
...with Sculpture. Zorach tried his first sculpture, carved out of a butternut panel salvaged from an old bureau, while summering in 1917 in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse. Where Zorach felt that his paintings were derivative, he found that working directly in wood and stone gave him a sense of coming into...