Word: rows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere, after the birth of our second child, there came that shadow of a doubt. We couldn't help questioning the sanity of the whole extravaganza. Has any set of parents the right to deprive a child of the privilege of planting a row of beans that will grow without irrigation? ... Of knowing a brook, and a field, and a hill intimately? Of picking fat, juicy blackberries...
Last week, in the condemned row at Sing Sing, Squint Sheridan and Cockeye Dunn were ready to die. Danny Gentile had turned "canary" at the last minute, singing out his knowledge of New York's crime-ridden waterfront (TIME, March 7) to win life imprisonment instead of the chair. Cockeye Dunn's family wanted him to sing, too, but he refused. As for Sheridan, who had tried in court to take all the blame for the murder and had even testified that killing was "just like ordering a cup of coffee," there was never any thought of squealing...
...scorned seam of Tory tradition, Britain's National Coal Board proudly mined itself a coat of arms. Henceforth all the board's letters and documents will bear a twin row of black triangles (representing coal), flanked by British lions, each shouldering a sun (heat & light...
...DiMaggio's friends were worried about him. For days in a row, he shut himself up in his midtown Manhattan hotel and brooded. He watched ballgames by television; the semimonthly installments on his $90,000-a-year salary seemed to increase his gloom. Waiting for his sore heel to heal had made easygoing, hard-playing Joe DiMaggio a different...
Pistol Packer. Last week Gould got his first real taste of the agrarian democrats' medicine-Chinese Communist staffers locked him in his office until midnight after he rejected their wage demands. Next day, when he wrote a story about the row, the workers refused to print the Post unless he dropped his "distorted" account and stopped "helping the bandit Chiang resist the People's Revolution." That convinced Gould that he could "no longer run an American newspaper in the American tradition," and he suspended the Post indefinitely...