Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charlotte. With $300 in savings in hand, he enrolled at Duke University. He had an early-morning newspaper route; he sold Bibles in West Virginia during the summer, and still ran out of money in his sophomore year and had to quit school. He hitchhiked West, dug storm sewers in Denver, earned some of his hardest-won dollars as a sparring partner in a local gymnasium until he was undone by a middleweight named Gentleman Ham Jenkins. After that he landed a job as a ranch hand in Wyoming's Jackson Hole country...
...Here by the fire we defy frost and storm; We are warm; And we have our heart's desire; For here we're good fellows and the beechwood and the bellows...
...last week, the very look of Ludwig Pankraz Zind, 51, betrayed his past. His slim body was ramrod-erect, a prim, Hitler-like mustache decorated his face. On his left cheek were the proud, ugly scars of old duels. After his Heidelberg student days, Zind had become a Nazi Storm Trooper, then a reserve captain in the Wehrmacht on the Russian front. Back in Offenburg after the war, he was first barred from his old teaching post by the Allies, but in 1948 he got his job back as a mathematics and biology teacher at Grimmelshausen Gymnasium (secondary school...
...neighbors, the ex-dictator, his wife and four daughters will have Mark Honeywell of the Minneapolis Honeywells to the south; to the north will be Frank Katzentine, owner of Radio Station WKAT, whose turned-down application for Miami's TV Channel Ten raised a storm during the House investigation of the Federal Communications Commission. Up the street are S. S. Kresge (5 & 10? stores) and Paul Hexter (son-in-law of car-rental Tycoon John Hertz). The Dodges knew little of the new owner; Mrs. Dodge said she met him once and found him "charming." When she heard...
...progressive educationists have taken some harsh criticism in recent months, but not all of them are listening in the storm cellar. A few are talking back-indignantly and in the same old rich, deep-purpled educationese...