Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campus stretching 3,000 miles across Canada, one of the continent's most unusual schools gives muscles to soft college boys and book learning to tough laborers. See EDUCATION, Bush Teachers...
...evening before he left for Europe, Herter made his first major speech as Secretary of State, a TV report to the nation on the purposes of the Geneva conference. He came across on the TV screens as a man with a grasp of his job, a clear view of its problems, and confidence in his ability to handle them...
Bulldog head set squarely on top of wattled neck and stooped shoulders, massive gold watch chain spread across massive middle, Sir Winston Churchill, 84, came haltingly down the ramp from Columbine III one evening last week at the Military Air Transport Service terminal in Washington. At the bottom of the steps President Eisenhower watched solicitously as he waited for his visitor. Then, with Churchill triumphant, Eisenhower stepped forward and thrust out his hand. "Hello, my friend," he said. "Glad to see you back again." Churchill, noticeably composing himself, replied: "I am indeed glad...
...channel has just opened up!" cried the excited announcer on station KFRV. "There's a four-foot ice jam across the river! My prediction now is it'll go tomorrow. A big chunk just broke loose below the radio shack! That's the way it starts. Stand by-if anything happens, we'll be back...
Author Panova shares Boris Pasternak's poetic affection for the Russian land. Serioja races across "black velvet ploughland" or watches the white-snow cling like "fat white caterpillars on the branches of the trees." Toward novel's end, the boy tastes bitter desolation when his stepfather is assigned a new post, and it appears that Serioja's health may force the family to leave him behind. At the last moment, seeing that parting will destroy the child, the stepfather scoops him up in a happy ending that is movingly true to the essential spirit of the book...