Word: postcard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drafted in 1939, Winter fought in Poland, later in Russia. He kept his talent alive by filling his soldier's sketchbook with nearly 500 postcard-sized abstractions, which he regularly mailed home to his wife. Later, he spent five years a Siberian labor camp, where he kept on sketching...
French to oust the Sultan, made a practice of indignantly exhibiting like a filthy postcard a picture of the Sultan's daughter clad in a bathing suit. Aisha herself made so many speeches on female emancipation that the French Resident General ordered her to stop. When at last in 1953 El Glaoui had his way and the French packed Ben Youssef into exile with two wives and a few favorite concubines, the aroused women of Morocco were the first to unite in demand for his return. Many were killed in street fighting. Others did their strike duty at home...
...With Big Joe out on the Romany road, frustrated Magistrate Murtagh was forced to content him self with ordering Adams and Lee to pay half their fines immediately or go to jail. They paid. Meantime, Saul Allen, returning to his office, found waiting on his desk the latest postcard from Big Joe. "Dear Saul: Just a card to let you know that I just arrived here from Atlanta, Ga. Spoke to Zeke Williams there, and he told me he is sending you what he owes for tickets. I also spoke to other boys, and they promised to do the same...
...blue books" of Parliamentary proceedings, could at least hope that his work would achieve some sort of permanence. There is no such consolation, for the 4,000-odd Harvard students who next week will attack another kind of blue book. Although these men will receive in return a postcard with a mark on it, in most cases they will never either see the exam booklets again or learn the instructor's reasons for the mark. The majority of the blue books, which represent a phenomenal number of man-hours of labor, will remain for several months in some Departmental office...
...Wide, Wide World ostensibly dealt with Our Heritage but this time its ranging from New Orleans to San Francisco, from Carlsbad Caverns to Canada had a postcard unreality: nothing that the viewer saw seemed to be actually happening. Everything-whether a Cajun picnic or a tour of a three-masted schoon-er-appeared to have been elaborately and ineptly staged for television...