Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best, this training in submission and subtlety produced the kind of woman who has moved men of the West as well as of the East to rhapsody. Carried away, a writer in the Encyclopaedia Britannica described her: "She is entirely unselfish; exquisitely modest without being anything of a prude; abounding in intelligence which is never obscured by egotism; patient in the hour of suffering; strong in time of affliction; a faithful wife; a loving mother; a good daughter; and capable, as history shows, of heroism rivaling that of the stronger...
...classroom, but for twelve years Rosetta Schroder was a prize student at one of New Zealand's busiest schools. The daughter of a sawmill operator, she lived with her parents and sister near Mount Turiwhate in the rugged bush country of the South Island's thinly populated west coast. The nearest school was a tough nine miles away, too far for daily travel. So when she was five, Rosetta began listening to lessons broadcast each day by New Zealand's national radio stations...
...world amateur championship, Canada's Belleville (Ont.) MacFarlands played so rough that they drew boos, as they had through much of a month-long pre-tournament tour. The MacFarlands needed police protection in Stockholm. In Finland they were pelted with snowballs, accused of being a "hooligan gang." In West Germany, Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung cried that the MacFarlands played "like a bunch of hoodlums . . . ramming down everything that came in their way." Countered MacFarland Assistant Manager Billy Reay: "We are just playing Canadian-style hockey, and European fans are not used...
...responses, this has surpassed any crusade of similar length." The staid city, which had all but run Evangelist Oral Roberts out of town in 1956, bucked cloudburst and heat wave to turn out some 714,000 strong for Graham's meetings in the Sydney Myer Music Bowl, the West Melbourne Stadium and the Melbourne Show Grounds, and more than 26,400 made "decisions for Christ...
...United Artists). In the early years of the Depression, a young man named Nathan Weinstein, the manager of a small hotel in Manhattan, suffered a strange and horrible schizo-religious vision. Set down in a slim volume called Miss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933 under the pen name of Nathanael West, his experience was acclaimed as a masterpiece of the peculiar literature of phantasmagoria-a vision of hell on earth, a scream of anguish at the meaninglessness of human suffering...