Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
Last week stone-throwing Bill Bingham found out what it was like to live in a glass house. Harvard had finished the most calamitous season on record (one victory, eight defeats), and the Boston press was having a field day. Wrote Bill Cunningham in the Herald: ". . . Harvard still thinks of herself as a national power when, as a matter of fact, she's only the champion of Middlesex County, and that only ... because she didn't meet Arlington High School...
...freestyle events will be manned as follows: Captain Joe Fox and Shep Brown in the 50, Mort Hull and Dave Stone in the 100, and Bob Berke and Doug Kinney in the 220. The 200-yard relay lineup has not yet been determined...
Also Juan U. Maegli, Orlando D. Martino, Patrick B. McCormick, Al Michel, Thomas H. O'Shea, William A. Prior, Albert F. Ruby, Jr., Raphael D. Silver, Robert J. Stern, Alan A. Stone, Dale W. Wickham, Dominique H. Wyant...
Build a Fire. Howard called up redheaded Walker Stone, 45-year-old boss of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Washington bureau, gave him his assignment and told him: "Build a fire. Stir up the animals." Stone set Reporter Andrew Tully to prowling the corridors of the State Department, assigned Oland D. Russell, his Far Eastern expert, to dig up other angles, briefed Editorial Writer Parker La Moore on the campaign ahead. Cartoonist Harold Talburt sharpened his Pulitzer-Prizewinning pencil...