Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bare little church, with its severe, varnished interior, its six plain glass windows, its 17 pews, was jammed, as always, with Americans and their children in their Sunday best. The tall, 68-year-old pastor took his text from Matthew 2:1: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem . . ." The minister laid down his Testament, and began his sermon...
...long time there was a little sign on the door of a small Columbia University office which read: "Professor Jessup on leave until Feb. 1." Someone thoughtfully crossed out "until Feb. 1" when gangling, affable Philip Caryl Jessup, having used up his year's leave as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations, went off to Washington to become Secretary of State Dean Acheson's top negotiator, with the title of ambassador at large...
...rear admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do its work over again. When it had finished that time, Burke's name was not on the list. It had been replaced by the name of Captain Richard P. Glass, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews' 51-year-old aide, who would be retired from service if he were passed over for promotion...
...list, the President still had taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience to the orders of his superiors, 31-Knot Burke, for the first time in his 26-year career, had been stopped cold...
...next month, 58-year-old Admiral Denfeld added, he would advise the Pentagon whether he chose to retire (after 41 years in a Navy uniform) or stay on active duty, "in any assignment ... in which the handicaps imposed by recent events will not be present...