Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondent, slim, well-tailored William S. (for Smith) White, 50, has long been regarded by fellow newsmen as the most astute chronicler of the U.S. Senate-and by strangers is often taken for one of its members. Along with his polished daily reporting, Bill White has found time to write two successful books: 1957 Citadel, an admirer's analysis of the Senate, and The Taft Story, which won him a 1955 Pulitzer Prize in Letters. Last week Reporter White quit the Times after 13 years to fill a rare opening in the ranks of Washington pundits. Taking over from...
...mishap in South Carolina fed fires already raging. By unhappy coincidence, Nikita Khrushchev chose this moment to write Bertrand Russell a 9,000-word letter attacking U.S. Secretary Dulles' stand on disarmament. This letter, published in the left-wing New Statesman, warned that "one absurd incident" involving a bomb-carrying plane could spread "horrible death," touch off a world...
...stolid, austere Amish farmfolk of central Ohio, education beyond the eighth grade is a waste and a danger; it is enough that a child learn to read, write and cipher. This stubbornly held tenet of their strict, old-fashioned sect runs squarely into an Ohio law requiring children to remain in school until they are 16. From time to time in Amish country, parents have been prosecuted for violating the law, but more often, tolerant school boards ignore the Amish boycott of high schools, or make senseless obeisance to the law's letter by letting Amish schoolchildren repeat...
...friend, companion, confidant. He is teacher, counselor, shopping guide. He is entertainer, public servant. He serves the housewife, the handicapped, those who toil by night. His audiences accept him as one of the family. They write him; they hang on his words. He has great responsibility. He lives...
...American Republic in the last century into one sonorous and coherent story. He succeeds magnificently. More cautious historians-the economic-theory men, the specialists in constitutional law, the nationalists-will cavil at Churchill's large-minded judgments. Yet this same generosity of spirit enables him to write of the American Civil War as the noblest war-one fought on sheer principle. Even Civil War buffs who know the last cock plume in the "shapos" at Bull Run will be moved by Churchill's brief epilogue to Gettysburg: "When that morning came, Lee, after a cruel night march...