Word: legend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upended bayonet until, after 20 minutes of agony, he toppled and gashed himself (but he never named his tormentors). By 1901, when he graduated 15th in his class, George Catlett Marshall, son of a well-off coke processor, collateral descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, had become a legend: First Captain of the Corps of Cadets, all-Southern football tackle, tireless hiker, faultless in conduct and dress-soldier...
...Natchez (pop. 29,200) from some 50,000 curbsiders. In Jackson, state legislators, elated over Mississippi misses copping the Miss America crown two years in a row, passed a resolution commending Lynda Lee, authorized issuance of special, optional license plates for cars' front bumpers (price: $1). The legend: "Mississippi, Home of Miss Americas, Land of Beautiful Women...
...triumph. Newspapers all over the country were quick to proclaim Centre's win as an upset. As years passed, the story of coach Charlie Moran's little country boys who prayed in the locker room before going out onto the field spread, and the 1921 game became a football legend...
...back to the time when Belgian officials would come into a village at night to round up Congolese males for forced labor. Gradually, the blacks began to see these officials as one all-powerful demon, whose lantern cast an evil spell. Though no one knows exactly who brought the legend of the evil White Man back to life, thousands of Congolese are today convinced that he is once again stalking the land to hypnotize blacks with his lantern and then grind them up into corned beef...
...city of Bamberg (pop. 76,800) when some oddball, armed with a bucket of white oil paint and bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there for all Bambergers to see, stood a legend in German, sloshed in letters a foot and a half high: "Elvis Presley-My God." Dreamboat Groaner Presley was on U.S. Army duty some 100 miles from the scene of his deification...