Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Months later Dr. Reeves went back and examined his discovery. He did not find any chunks of meteorite, nor could he prove conclusively that the hole was made by a meteor. But all signs indicated that it was. There were no volcanic materials in the vicinity, and the strata around the rim seemed to be tilted upward as if from an underground explosion...
...upper Manhattan, pumped three slugs into a boss stevedore named Tom Collentine, and got away. Along New York City's 771 miles of crime-ridden waterfront, the murder sent only a ripple of excitement. Most of the New York press gave the killing a good play and then went on to other news. But not the New York Sun. It set a man to digging out the story behind the story. Last week stocky, hard-digging Reporter Malcolm Malone ("Mike") Johnson got a well-earned Pulitzer Prize* for his carefully documented series on "Crime on the Water Front...
...news of his assignment got around, he and his wife got a stream of anonymous telephone calls threatening them with dire trouble if he didn't lay off. Johnson changed his phone to an unlisted number and went on prying information out of dockwallopers, union bosses, thugs, shipowners and police files...
...operated through, locals of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Union Boss Joseph P. Ryan let off a windy counterattack that accused Johnson of being taken in by Communist-line reformers. The Sun printed Ryan's bleats along with Johnson's point-by-point rebuttal and went right on blasting...
...this $500 Pulitzer Prize award, Reporter Johnson murmured modestly that "the woods are full of reporters who could do as good a job." Then he took time out for an office cocktail party in his honor, and went back to digging...