Word: unearthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scandal they were talking about was first turned up last month by Reporters George Thieni of the Chicago Daily News and Roy Harris of the Post-Dispatch. Thiem and Harris, who were covering the state capitol at Springfield, had spent two weeks digging through old Illinois state payrolls to unearth the smelly story. At least 33 Illinois editors & publishers of small-town newspapers, they reported, had been paid a total of $305,000 by the State of Illinois during the two terms of Republican Governor Dwight Green, defeated last November. Their relatives had pocketed another...
...Valpey is still looking for a right-side backer-up--somebody who will 'step out and be a leader," in addition to a pair of good defensive ends. He hopes to unearth them in the daily workouts against Jayvee Coach Ben McCabe's "Dartmouth" team. At the moment, will Davis, Don Stone, Paul O'Brien, Bill Hickey, and Chuck Glynn are all battling for a Saturday starting assignment. Veteran Phil Isenberg will handle the left flank...
...market for good mid-field men. Every lacrosse team needs nine durable midfielders and Madux can only count up to six: Captain Hans Estin, Dave Abbot, Don Page, Don Louria, Bob Lang, and Austie Lyne. Between now and Saturday's scrimmage, with the Boston Lacrosse Club he hopes to unearth three more...
...American about postwar Germany. It is sometimes too stagey, often too self-consciously penetrating in its analysis of character. But it is honest, observant, and has a theme at once simple and troubling. Its hero, Lieut. Cooper, works in the Newspaper Section of Military Government; his job is to unearth heroes, i.e., German journalists who had bucked the Nazis and somehow survived. He squirms guiltily in his role of judging conqueror. How would he, as a German, have stood the test of the Nazi terror? What right has he, a noncombatant desk officer who has always doubted his own courage...
...pentecostal time of wild religious mysticism and hysteria. Scores of thousands of Americans were pondering the second coming of Christ, thronging into camp meetings where they danced, hopped, screeched and talked convulsively "in tongues." Joseph Smith's story: an angel named Moroni had told him where to unearth some golden plates covered with mystic symbols...