Word: gridley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikers drove on. At Gridley they deployed into three groups along the highway and in a small park beside the tracks. When the train came, one group cut loose with rocks again. The train went on to the edge of the town, started to back onto a siding. Four guards got off and walked ahead of the caboose...
...Marysville, Calif. Bingo Playhouse, a G.I. won a free five-minute telephone call to any place in the U.S., rang up his mother-in-law in Gridley, Calif., 15? away...
...mother was Julia Ward Howe, who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic in a moment of inspiration in 1861 and died in 1910, at 91, without ever having been able to live down or live up to that solitary performance. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, a romantic figure, a friend of Lafayette, a soldier in the wars for Greek and Polish independence. In This Was My Newport, Daughter Maud Howe Elliott, now 90, tells what it was like to be the child of celebrities, in a 269-page volume that is half personal and family history, half...
...small and oft-repeated catalogue of their heroes' laconic battle phrases. They were better words, perhaps, than John Paul Jones's "I have not yet begun to fight," better, certainly, than Commodore George Dewey's pale and measured, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." They mirrored the tempo of 1942's savage fighting, they caught the spirit of a confident U.S.: the bigger they are the harder they fall...
...Boston. The first school of its kind in the country, it was conceived by Dr. John P. Fisher, who, tradition says, buttonholed an unfamiliar but handsome and able - looking young man on Boylston Street one day, and made him the first director on the spot. He was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, whose wife wrote the now-famous words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The institution was named after Col. Thomas H. Perkins, who was once asked by George Washington to accept the secretaryship in his cabinet, but refused because he already owned more ships than the United States...