Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand eight hundred miles northwest of San Francisco, below the widening jaws of Bering Strait, stands St. Lawrence Island, a forlorn, treeless place of volcanic origin. This is the region where Alaska and the Soviet Union stare face to face at one another across three to 55 miles of icy waters, and it was there one lonely morning last week, just about the hour that Molotov addressed the U.N., that a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune patrol plane flew on its routine radar patrol...
...rode off at the head of his company of 81 men. Peale, a green militiaman, found his first view of the face of the war "a hellish sight." Standing up to his first volley (discharged from British muskets outside Princeton), Peale noted with surprise the "balls which whistled their thousand different notes around our heads, and what is very astonishing did little or no harm." After returning the fire three times, Peale's men saw the enemy formed near the college take to their heels. Wrote Peale jubilantly in his diary: "We huzared Victory...
...week, then landed at the city's new airport. Above a nearby hangar streamed a banner proclaiming: "Congratulations, we're proud of you, Jack." Below the banner hung a 20-ft. cardboard putter. Out stepped a lanky, lean, tired man in blue slacks and white sweater. A thousand welcomers cheered. Unashamedly, the weary man wept. Jack Fleck, 32, a week after leaving Davenport as one of the nation's most obscure golf pros, was home as the city's No. 1 citizen -rocketed from nowhere to glory as the darkest horse ever...
...thousand new readers a week are putting their armchairs around Auntie Mame and finding her neither safe nor sane, merely sidesplitting. Auntie Mame is a screwball who has to be seen or read to be disbelieved. She is a coupon-clipping Pearl White hanging on the dizzy cliff edge of her every enthusiasm. She is a roaring Life Drive without a muffler, and the most commanding prose female since Philip Wylie dreamed up "Mom." Around her and her nephew Pat Author Dennis has fashioned a frothy drawing-room comedy spiked with smoking-room raffishness and powder-room chitchat. The little...
...world's most stable and conservative societies. The "anonymous, pro saic, tremendously persistent . . . host of official., jurists, clerks and bookkeepers [who have survived] forty kings and nearly as many revolutions and coups "d'ét" administer the enormously centralized state with all the finality of one thousand years' unbroken tradition. These "supreme luminaries who control the state itself, its legislation, its finances and its personal politics, are totally removed from the eyes of the profane, and no breath of air disturbs the venerable dust of centuries that has gathered about them...