Word: valleyes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Nikita Khrushchev really saw of the U.S. was next to nothing. By his own order, he bypassed such monuments to U.S. achievement as the Tennessee Valley Authority, and by his own disinterest, he did not look upon the unparalleled industrial complex between Washington and New York City. Instead, he set his own course through the serried ranks of U.S. diplomats, businessmen, civic brasshats and movie actresses, as if in search of more Marxist cliches to take home. Even when his hosts drove him through towns with tall white steeples, through prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely...
...difference between the life of the righteous and the life of the wicked in Sheol. The part where the wicked dwelt was called Gehenna, and the part where the righteous dwelt was called Paradise. Often translated "Hell" in the New Testament, Gehenna is really derived from the Valley of Hinnom, outside the city of Jerusalem, which was notorious as the place where fires burned to consume refuse and as the scene of ancient child sacrifice...
There was another villain in the Deadwood legend: fire. Any flicker of flame in the bottom of the valley would feed upward to the houses above. And every Deadwood youngster knew that the gulch was a natural chimney when forest fires swept through the adjacent piny hills. A fire starting in a bakery charred Deadwood in 1879. The town was rebuilt with a water barrel on every roof, survived three big fires in 1951-52. Last week, for 24 hours, Deadwood (pop. 4,000) broiled under the windswept fingers of a forest fire that threatened to cook it once...
...lower Broadway, incidentally passing over the site where marooned Dutch sailors spent the winter of 1613 as the first white inhabitants of Manhattan. In the U.S. for ten days, the princess would lunch with President Eisenhower in Washington, but would spend much of her time in the Hudson River Valley, helping to commemorate the 350th anniversary of its exploration by the Dutch captain of The Half Moon...
...Neither adults nor children can damage th,eir hearts by exercise if they are healthy to begin with. Dr. Joseph B. Wolffe of Valley Forge Hospital said that the muscles in a normal person's limbs will give out, leaving him unable to move, before he can strain the more powerful heart muscle. Some of the rare cases of collapse and sudden death during exercise may be due to exhaustion of blood sugar rather than heart damage.¶ Exercise helps to guard against obvious obesity (a proved life-shortener), said Boston's bicycle-riding Paul Dudley White...