Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Woodrow Wilson. Daughter Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 69, recalled Wilson's triumphant return to his birthplace of Staunton, Va. shortly after his first election in 1912. Visiting with his ancient Aunt Janie, a "grim old Presbyterian" almost stone deaf, Wilson twice bellowed into her ear trumpet: "I've just been elected President." Digging him at last, Aunt Janie inquired: "Of what?" "Of the U.S.," shouted Wilson. "Don't be silly!" snapped Aunt Janie, indignantly dismissing him from her presence...
Sundae Punch. In Ocean Ridge, Fla., told to get a permit or stop vending on the Boynton Inlet docks, Ice Cream Peddler C. R. Wilson threw a left jab, broke the police chief's nose in four places...
...Wilson's graduate seminar, which will "start with onomatopoeia and go on to more complex things," will resemble one he taught at Smith during the war. He will deal with linguistic effects, "from the sound of bells to James Joyce...
During the Fall term, Wilson will devote two hours a week to his graduate seminars and two to undergraduate lectures. But in the Spring, the undergraduate Civil War course will have two lectures and two seminars each week...
...years ago, Wilson wrote a best selling book on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Before traveling to Israel to research the scrolls, he mastered Hebrew in a little more than one month...