Word: tormentor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's Andrei Gromyko, who recently has had the unusual experience of having to listen to some unvarnished New England backtalk, painted an extraordinary word picture of his tormentor. Chief U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Said Gromyko: "The U.S. representative has not been speaking, but swearing, using a jargon of the hillbilly shepherds in the mountains of Kentucky...
...sometimes about 7 as she was getting out of bed. Often when Mrs. Gutheridge picked up the phone, she was greeted with a silence broken only by the sound of breathing at the other end of the line. Sometimes, half-hypnotized, she waited for several minutes before her unknown tormentor slowly asked his question "How does it feel, Mrs. Gutheridge?" Then the phone would click and go dead...
Once again the police absolved Mrs. Gutheridge of blame. They suggested, too, that she try to arrange a meeting with her telephone tormentor so that they might trap him. But Dorothy Gutheridge, near collapse, could no longer endure the sound of her phone and the relentless daily question. With her father, she fled to a relative's home. "Sometimes I think I am an instrument of death," she said last week. "Sometimes it just seems I can never get in an automobile again. I don't know what I am going to do, but I think...
...that night, with 6,500 fans rooting for him, Keeny, his nose smashed, his left hand sprained, came off the canvas after a sixth-round, eight-count knockdown and won a unanimous decision over his old tormentor, Tommy Umeda. By week's end Keeny was swamped with offers from Chicago, Honolulu. Mexico and the Philippines. But Keeny, hoping he has the habit licked at last, is setting his sights on the top. Says Keeny: "I'd really like to fight in the Garden. That's it - the big apple...
...admirers from behind his rimless spectacles, Ximenes took the opportunity to ask their forgiveness for No. 26 Down in a recent puzzle, which a lot of "solvers" had found too tough.††† He was forgiven. Said one speaker: "We salute you not only as our tormentor, but as our tutor and friend." Said another: "It is impossible to imagine what our lives would be without...