Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Professional Pride. In Miami, Mrs. Marian Smith Steeves, home economics instructor at the University of Miami, charged in a divorce suit that her husband complained about her cooking. In Miami, William Forster, onetime New York policeman, sued for divorce on the ground that his wife "intimidated...
...Brickley gained more ground and put Harvard in more scoring positions that led to a score through his marked ability as an interferer than would equal his record as a drop-kicker...
...good man on the ground, Johnson soon joined Humphries in a management team. After a stint in P.A.T. (eventually absorbed into United Airlines), they worked in the construction supply business before tackling their biggest job in 1941. In that year they were hired by Edward H. Heller, New-Dealing California businessman and later a member of the Surplus Property Board, to pull his Pacific Intermountain Express, a West-Coast-to-Chicago truckline...
Novelist Goudge's first concern is to stake out a field of action on some safe old ground, and stock it with standard breeds of characters. First she introduces Mr. Midshipman Anthony Louis Mary O'Connell of the British navy around 1800, a lad with "delicate lips and flaring nostrils . . . of a startled horse." Anthony deserts ship after being spread-eagled in the rigging for two hours. Ashore he meets Stella Sprigg, a girl whose "swift graceful movements were those of ... a faun or gazelle . . ." They fall in love, but Anthony, flaring his nostrils, rejoins the navy...
...comes off worse than Major General George B. McClellan, whose reputation, even for his conduct of the disastrous Peninsular Campaign of 1862, had improved under the ministrations of recent historians. Williams makes it hard to believe that "Little Mac" was anything but a stuffed tunic, an ambitious parade-ground dandy whose timidity in combat was close kin to cowardice. In battle, Confederate generals relied on McClellan's fears just as Lincoln came to be sure of his incompetence. Writes Williams: "No blow by [Stonewall] Jackson could be quite as paralyzing as an order by McClellan...