Word: 13th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studies by Sir George. Piled upon their floors like snowdrifts were heaps of documents concerning his incredible projects and affairs. Boxes of papers were neatly labeled, though not often correctly: thus, the box inscribed "Osbert's Debts" might well contain instead papers on "Pig-Keeping in the 13th Century," or "The Use of the Bed," or "My Advice on Poetry...
...United Electrical Workers, meeting for their 13th annual convention in Manhattan, plowed straight down the Communist furrow, despite the gees and haws of the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer Jim Carey, onetime U.E. president. By overwhelming majorities, the delegates denounced the draft as "part of big business' war against the American people"; condemned the Marshall Plan as a tool of Wall Street; re-elected all their Red-minded officers...
Last week in the bishop's palace (now a municipal museum), some of Limoges' ancient pride was reassembled. In these enamels of the 12th, 13th and 14th Centuries, the intricate colored plaques, chalices and crucifixes recalled Byzantine mosaics and Gothic stained glass. But the enamels had one element those two mediums lacked-a quality of much-in-little. That quality, which appealed strongly to the medieval mind, had made Limoges enamels sought after by men of the Chateaux and men of the Church...
...Replied Billows affably: "Lady, I've got a nicely pressed suit in my locker -and I'll wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan had already muffed three easy putts, let it bother him so much that he began bending his tee shots. On the 13th hole, he hooked into deep rough, was in more rough with his second shot, struck a tree with his third, and conceded hole and match after his fourth barely reached the green. Billows' margin: an overwhelming...
Fifty Days. On Friday the 13th, Berlin had weathered 50 days of siege. The stormiest wind and rain of the year whipped through the ruined city. Nevertheless, on that day the West's cargo planes flew in more than 2,000 tons.* At Tempelhof, a C-54 winged in & out of the overcast with a load of coal, overshot the field, crashed a fence, burst into flame. The two U.S. flyers got out safely through an emergency hatch-leaving the airlift's death toll still at five...