Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, at 42, he died sweetly in battle, and Cuba got its national hero. Spain vowed: "Cuba shall remain Spanish though it takes the last man and the last peseta." Rebel General Gómez vowed: "We will be free, though we have to raise a tomb in each home." New York Herald Correspondent Stephen Bonsai, father of the new U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, visited Havana's Laurel Ditch, the Spanish execution ground, and wrote: "Clots of dark human blood, as we slipped on it, clung to our feet like glue. In the wall, a thousand ghastly bullet holes...
...Brooklyn's Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz, a hot-tempered scourge of the underworld during the day, slumbered peacefully in his seaside home, a sneak thief lifted His Honor's pants from a bedroom chair, made off with...
...orphan' any more. In joining the church I have the assurance that God's in his heaven and the world's all right, that's true. But a churchgoer who looks on going to church as a kind of private home-insurance is beneath contempt. God doesn't need our prayers; he won't do us favors for them. Christianity is a power-and a living force to help us live to the full here and now. It is affirmation of life...
...headlong into the great European skiers. Working out on a slalom slope in Italy, they were passed by the French women's team. "They flashed by us like jet planes," Penny recalls. "Betsy and I just looked at each other, speechless. We thought we should have stayed at home." Neither of the girls did well in the Olympics. Says Penny philosophically: "All we did was get our first dose of higher education at Cortina...
...articulate Atkinson once explained why he had given the great Tom Fool such a tanning during his victorious ride in the Suburban Handicap in 1953: "The idea was not to beat him but to impress him with the urgency of the situation." In his 21-year career Ted booted home 3,795 winners, *won a healthy $17,449,360 in purses...