Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battlefields abroad. May He receive the thanks of each of us for this, His greatest bounty-and our supplication that peace on earth may live with us, always." Then, after finishing his first Christmas Message to the American people, the President went to his backyard and turned on the thousand lights of the nation's Christmas tree, a 35-ft. Norway spruce...
...Wavells have fought Britain's battles for almost a thousand years. Their ancestors served William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings; French members of the family were Crusaders in the same Middle East deserts where centuries later Field Marshal Wavell rode with Allenby. Wavell of Cyrenaica was the one-eyed professional soldier, author and poet who smashed the Italians in North Africa (1940) only to lose to Rommel, who commanded Singapore until it fell (1942), governed India as viceroy (1943-47). His fate had been to fight the early delaying actions when Britain was behind. Fighting...
WHAT is wrong with France? Why should a nation that has successfully survived a thousand years be always on the brink of disaster? Why should a nation that blazed the Continent's trail to democracy be unable to govern itself? Why should a nation whose name has ranked for centuries as a synonym of enlightenment and intelligence be unable to make up its mind? No one ponders these questions more earnestly than the French themselves. As France sulked proudly at the sting of the U.S. Secretary of State's rebuke and vacillated helplessly over the choice...
Profit from Song. It does not happen any more now, because Mrs. Wagner organized an all-out effort by the Negro community to set up a 25-bed convalescent home where Anderson Hospital's Negro outpatients can stay at little or no cost. Last weekend a thousand rich Negro voices welled up in the Sam Houston Coliseum in the half-resigned, half-hopeful words of favorite spirituals and hymns. Children pantomimed angels and devils, flowers and animals, while a narrator boomed James Weldon Johnson's words in The Creation and Listen, Lord. With an audience...
...western cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with doom), the colossal glacial ditch by which access to the peak is possible. From there to the summit is a lung-bursting matter of 46 days, with the camera dogging along for all but the last few thousand feet of the way. It sees some awesome things-avalanches down the vast chute of the cwm, in which ice blocks the size of a ten-story building dance along like pebbles; gaping crevasses whose sinister gullets lead down into a blue-green shade; the ominous huddle of the Everest massif, where three...