Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tessie Hutchinson was in the middle of a cleared space; she held her hands out desperately, but the villagers moved in. Old Man Warner kept saying, "Come on, come on, everyone." Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, "It isn't fair," but soon the crowd was upon her. A stone hit her on the head. Other stones came hurtling through...
Four spares for the third varsity heavy boat found a four oared shell at the Union Boat Club, three weeks ago. Under the aegis of Dave Stone, number three man and unofficial captain, they will enter in the name of the Union Boat Club. Bolles has given them a few sessions of polishing this week. Now their only difficulty is in finding some competition, for no other four has turned up in the regatta entry blanks...
...like David trying to beat Goliath without a sling and stone. The varsity lacrosse team had plenty of spirit in its game with Williams yesterday; it played hard enough to make the final score close, but something was missing. Williams...
Soon after dawn a Sherbrooke lawyer named Hertel O'Bready, acting for the Provincial Police, appeared on the stone steps of Saint-Aimé. From a small red book, he read the hard-fisted Riot Act: "Our Sovereign Lord The King . . . commands all persons . . . immediately to disperse . . . upon pain of ... imprisonment for life. God save the King...
...what Thackrey calls "the non-Communist left." Working as publisher, editor and managing editor, Wallaceite Thackrey thinks he can make money on 65,000 circulation and whatever advertising he can get. His editorial staff of 25 will include Medical Writer Albert Deutsch and Washington Correspondent I. F. ("Izzy") Stone, both survivors of PM and the Star, whom Thackrey harbored at the Post. The Compass' sport editor will be Stanley Woodward, onetime head of the New York Herald Tribune sport staff, lately editor of the short-lived Sports Illustrated magazine...