Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trucking companies were on hand to state their views on the undesirability of admitting a competitor to their ranks. "This boy," said a representative of powerful Tyneside Removals Ltd., "is the type that might well work right around the clock. In five years he might replace us in the town." Warned a lawyer for Pickford's Ltd.: "While I hardly think he is a threat to Pickford's, one must remember that my firm was also started by an enterprising young man with a horse and cart." With the big truckers' legal eyes boring in upon...
...stirred in near rebellion. Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, onetime Sukarno favorite who now leads dissident forces in East Indonesia (Celebes, Lesser Sundas and Moluccas), says 'flatly: "Sukarno must go." From Sumatra last week came word of a Communist-inspired attack on Indonesian regular army units stationed in the town of Siantar, 80 miles from the port of Medan...
...them," he reported, "had ever heard of him." At Kenyon, Poet-Critic John Crowe Ransom sadly detects "a sort of idleness of the creative imagination." At the University of Illinois, English Professor Charles Shattuck complains : "A secondhand bookstore wouldn't be supported in this town." Says Joseph Baker, professor of English at the State University of Iowa: "Even the intellectuals do not read as much as they did a generation ago, and those who make literature their specialty tend to be Alexandrian-they talk of form, metaphor, style, leaving the important matters to sociology and psychology...
...period of serious illness as a student did Thielicke discover that theology was something more than an intellectual game. After recovering, says he, "I now knew what faith was." In 1940 he was ordained a minister in the Evangelical Church, shortly thereafter became a pastor in the ancient town of Ravensburg. Thielicke's anti-Nazi sermons earned him a stern prohibition against speaking in public. He wrote two books and smuggled them out to Switzerland, where they were published anonymously. Karl Goerdeler, a leader of the abortive July 20 plot against Hitler, engaged him to write part...
...free-for-alls of such dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...