Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monstrous, Monstrous." Quick to notice detail, Montgomery commented that Union General George Sears Greene had been immortalized in stone wearing his spurs upside down, was relieved to discover that Union Commander George G. Meade wore his spurs correctly. But Meade came in for sharper criticism. "He was not very sure of what he was doing," said Monty. "He was not sure of himself." Ike explained that Meade assumed command only two days before the battle. "He didn't know the plans...
...warned one NATO partner after another that they would make cemeteries of their countries in case of war. Their propaganda around the world was just as relentlessly condemnatory of the U.S. as ever, just as persistent in talking large and loosely about abolishing nuclear weapons. Only inside the Bath stone solemnity of London's Lancaster House were they talking with some precision on the subject. One possibility, though not probability, is that the Russians mean business. But there are other possibilities. They may be interested simply in testing out the subject, to see whether it has more advantages...
...still barely aware of the scope of his success, hardly knows what he is scheduled to do next or what he will receive for it, gets $25 a week in pocket money from his shrewd managers, his mother and a Hollywood hillbilly impresario named Cliffie Stone...
...cardinal entered the ancient former Carmelite convent on the Rue d'Assas in Paris and paused on the stone stairway. Here, on Sept. 3, 1792, a howling mob of the Revolution had hacked to pieces 114 bishops and priests, thrown their dismembered bodies into the Seine. The cardinal uttered a short prayer for the peace of their souls, then went on up the "stair of the martyrs" and entered the Salle des Actes, smiling and gesturing with slender hands. Before him, four cardinals, 20 archbishops, 90 bishops-most of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in France-rose...
...loss of MacKinnon may be the most serious of the three, since he is the only goalie on the squad with game experience. Chris Stone, who will fill in for the ailing MacKinnon, is more or less an unknown quantity...