Word: yondering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a century-while Portland (pop. 373,628) grew bigger than its namesake-few people bothered to wonder whether or not it had been misnamed. Last week, however, Portland Author Stewart (Holy Old Mackinaw, Ethan Allen, Murder Out Yonder) Holbrook, a transplanted Vermonter himself, was suggesting that Portland should be Portland no longer. Backed by a committee of six, he petitioned the city council to let Portlanders vote on changing the city's name in a special election this autumn...
...yonder hill Who seems to dote
...Marines sing From the Halls of Montezuma, the Navy sings Anchor's Aweigh, the Air Force sings Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, but the nearest thing to an Army theme song is the old horse-artillery number, The Caissons Go Rolling Along-and few soldiers have seen a caisson since World...
...long ago, TIME made a special subscription offer to servicemen, writing them about the fabulous exploits of a mythical Captain "Hot Shot" Callahan. Captain Callahan, it seemed had everything it took to make small boys dream about their own conquest of the wild blue yonder...
Love's sweet voice is calling yonder...