Word: underwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mystery. In the Her-Ex city room, bald, stoop-shouldered Jack Campbell breathes down the neck of City Editor Aggie Underwood (TIME, June 30, 1947) as the copy comes in, picks every picture himself, likes to ask her: "What have we got for the stenographers today...
...Underwood, how; Fonda, 2; Moukman, 3; Smith, 4; Ker, 5; Weber, 6; Pendleton, 7; Trimble, stroke; McGuire...
Last week, 60-year-old Ethel Underwood was giving a tea when two men forced their way into the Seoul house, one at the front door and one at the back. Outwardly unshaken by the invasion, Mrs. Underwood left her guests and confronted one of the men in the foyer. As she was trying to persuade him to leave the house, his accomplice raised a sawed-off U.S. Army carbine and fired. Mrs. Underwood's guests found her lying in the foyer, a bullet through her abdomen. "I want to see my husband," she said...
Revenge or Mistake? Communists murdered Ethel Underwood. Of that one fact, police and U.S. Army investigators were sure. The entire Seoul detective force was assigned to dig into the Red underground for the criminals. The most favored theories: that it was revenge for the recent expulsion of suspected Communists from Chosen Christian College; that the Communists had mistaken Mrs. Underwood for her guest of honor, a Korean woman noted for her pro-United Nations activities. One high U.S. official thought he had the answer: "If the Communists are looking for a way to make Americans distrust and dislike Koreans, they...
...killed by the fanatically nationalist Boxers of China; as a result the influence of Christianity became more pervasive than it had ever been in the land of Confucius. Throughout the Orient in the past ten years, death has come to many missionaries as it came last week to Missionary Underwood...