Word: blacksmithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Putney School grew, Director Hinton kept the pioneer spirit fiercely alive. Her blue-jeaned charges learned their math and history in the mornings; in the afternoons they learned how to ski, tend cows, or run a blacksmith's shop. There were no rigid schedules of weekly exams, no report cards-not even football teams. After hours, students were urged to strike out on their own projects, e.g., sonnet-writing, musical composition, working with wrought iron. Nor were the sexes kept apart. Said one recent alumnus: "There is no 'problem.' After you've worked all afternoon around...
...with searchlights a climber's torn coat. Near by, the rescuers found the first body, that of a college football star, Humberto Areizaga. As they dug deeper they were horrified to hear muffled voices beneath them. Leonor Colin, a 21-year-old student, and Francisco Meneses, a husky blacksmith, were buried under huge blocks of ice. Rescuers chopped futilely with their alpine ice axes. "Where is my mother? I want to see her again," the girl sobbed just before she died. Soon afterwards, the blacksmith died and the dark mountain was quiet-except for the chip-chip...
Birth of a Legend. "What a character!" sighed his wife Rachele, when she heard of her Benito's sudden rise to power. Most Italians echoed her words, wondered what sort of oddity their new ruler was. They knew he was the son of a Romagna blacksmith and had come up the hard way, going to jail for his political activities, suffering poverty in Switzerland. They knew little of his real character-e.g., that he could be bullied by anyone who took the trouble. They knew still less of his chronic ailments (syphilis, stomach ulcers) and his antipathy...
...track blacksmith examines the Dancer's aluminum racing shoes (size 6, next to largest), replaces a few questionable nails...
...Delays. In Los Angeles, retired Blacksmith Abraham Jones won an annulment of his marriage when he complained that his wife Amelia "had no love for me," once took three days to cook a chicken...