Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DOROTHY M. WIND New London, Conn...
...Arriving at the Southern Governors' Conference in Sea Island, Georgia, Faubus explained to newsmen that he had first called out the guard because 1) integrationists had planned to make a big showcase out of integration in Little Rock. and 2) segregationists, catching wind of the plan had threatened violence to stop it. t Including TIME, for its"colored, slanted and falsified reports" (see Publisher's Letter...
...made Murrow one of radio's legends. In New York, CBS staffers formed a Murrow-Ain't-God Club so they could view him with proper detachment. (When Murrow got wind of it, he demanded charter membership.) His vivid picture of Londoners under fire stirred the heart of the U.S., stands as one of the war's memorable reporting jobs...
...storm broke, instantly, violently, as if with one light touch theologians had gone up in spontaneous combustion. The mildly questioning monk turned into a national hero. Rough German humor entered his manner: "If I break wind in Wittenberg," he said, "they smell it in Rome." Soon he boomed his great battle cries: "I have been born to war, and fight with factions and devils. [I] am the rough forester to break a path and make things ready...
...Roots (Barbachano Ponce; Edward Harrison). The wind is blowing the world away. Over the cold, dry plain of Mexico, the dust devils march in pallid ranks like ghosts of the land-ravaging conquistadors. Into the storm an Indian leans, and with his mattock chops a hopeless furrow which the wind fills silently behind him."Who digs the land,"the Indians say, "digs his own grave." He pauses, arrested in a Mexican Angelus. Somewhere in this howling world, in a bare mud hut, his child is crying in a basket, and by a tiny fire his wife slaps stolidly...