Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most heavily traded stock on the American Stock Exchange last week belonged to a company that few Wall Streeters had heard of until recently: General Development Corp., whose shares went from twelve to 17? in the past month. General Development, pioneering a new kind of land boom in Florida, is building and selling houses at a price that retired oldsters on social security can afford...
Stalagmight. In Liverpool, England, thieves scaled the 10-ft. wall of Walton Prison, got inside unnoticed, smashed a window and broke down a pair of 3-in. oak doors to get into the warden's office, cracked a safe, left the prison without attracting the attention of 200 jailers or disturbing the sleep of 900 prisoners...
From the Union lines, behind the stone wall on the crest of Cemetery Ridge, First Lieut. Frank A. Haskell looked down on the forming ranks of the Confederacy: "More than half a mile their front extends; more than a thousand yards the dull grey masses deploy, man touching man, rank pressing rank, and line supporting line. The red flags wave, their horsemen gallop up and down; the arms of eighteen thousand men, barrel and bayonet, gleam in the sun, a sloping forest of flashing steel. Right on they move, as with one soul, in perfect order, without impediment of ditch...
Magnificent, grim, irresistible-these were the gaunt men in grey on the third desperate day of battle near Gettysburg, charging into history under Major General George Pickett. Their objective was the stone wall in the center of the Union lines, where Staff Lieut. Haskell and the veterans of the II Corps stood waiting, watching. It was strangely quiet: "The click of the locks as each man raised the hammer to feel with his fingers that the cap was on the nipple; the sharp jar as a musket touched a stone upon the wall when thrust in aiming over...
...varsity track team, along with eight other Eastern squads, ran up against a stone wall of Cornell winning performances Saturday as the Big Red rode to a crushing victory at the Heptagonal Track and Field Championships at Annapolis, Md. The Crimson came in fifth, behind Cornell, Navy, Yale, and Army, in that order...