Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editorialists Max Lerner and I. F. Stone (now in Palestine) will become thrice-a-week columnists, and have been told to keep it brief. As cartoonists, the Star has hitched a talented team: young Bill Mauldin and, for the editorial page, Veteran Edmund Duffy, three-time Pulitzer Prizewinner, who recently left the Baltimore...
Oops. In Syracuse, N.Y., Chester D. Marcus held hands with Mary Stone at the movies, drew her arm a little closer, broke...
...though the 17-acre area was being rapidly leveled, U.N. still did not know just how soon it would be able to build the tall stone plinths of its permanent home. A bill to lend U.N. $65 million had finally been approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Yet U.N.'s bill stood a chance of getting lost in the shuffle of unfinished congressional business. Said James Dawson, U.N. Coordinator of Construction: "We will need every break to be ready for U.N.'s fall meeting...
...chunky, cheerful man toured Palestine in an open convertible. He looked at the limestone hills and green settlements with a soldier's eye. This hilltop, he would say, should be fortified; that gully would be ideal for a withdrawal if necessary. To strangers he was introduced as "Mr. Stone." His real name was David ("Mickey") Marcus, late of West Point, New York City and the U.S. Army...
...long way in time & space from the Lancashire hill where Fox saw his vision of the future Religious Society of Friends. The gently rugged founder of Quakerism, known to his age as "the man in the leather breeches," might have found Pendle Hill's four spacious stone houses, its 15 acres of trees, lawns and gardens strangely remote from the round of jails, beatings and death which was the regular portion of early Quakers. The testimonies of Pendle Hill's morning meetings for worship might have seemed somewhat prosy to a man whose fierce fervor of inward prayer...