Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fires of revolt, which flared up in Athens, Tenn. a fortnight ago, broke out anew last week 865 miles away in tiny, shabby Central Falls, R.I. (pop. 26,000). Again it was Army & Navy veterans who set the blaze; this time, four rookie policemen. But there were differences: 1) the rookies had never meant to light the torch of civic reform in the first place; 2) they fired no shots, broke no laws in waking up the town...
...restless crowd in the public square, the campaign posters on the courthouse maples and the granite-faced strangers swaggering in the streets of Athens, Tenn. (pop. 11,000) were all familiar portents. Election day was upon the "Friendly City...
...National Laboratory is one of three atomic research projects planned by the War Department. The second, the Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago, is already in operation, and a third will be selected in the Far West at a future date. Part of the Clinton Engineering Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn., will also be used in the research project...
...PATTON Knoxville, Tenn...
...wound fact into such a mess of taffy prose that there is no tasting the original flavor of the personalities. Luckily for the reader who wants to know what really happened, Historian R. Gerald McMurtry, who is an instructor and director of Lincolniana at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., retells the unadorned facts in an "appendix" which is almost as long as and far better than Olive Carruthers' novel. It reprints a letter Lincoln wrote in 1838, which tells his version of the story...