Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George VI was feeling better, too. This week he and Queen Elizabeth planned to go down to their place at Sandringham, hoping that the country air would be good for his ailing...
...Egyptian sea and air raid, which did little damage, looked like a grandstand act to save face at home. On the battlefronts in the Negeb desert, the Christmas war was grinding to a halt, and the Jews once more were the victors. In ten days they had driven the last Egyptian from the territory assigned them by the original U.N. partition plan, and occupied almost all the southern desert up to Egypt's border. Only at Gaza and the Faluja pocket were the Egyptians able to hold...
Israelis threatened to bomb Cairo in retaliation. Before they got around to it, the Jewish part of Jerusalem suffered its first air raid in six months...
Erni has painted his own wife and child playing in front of a forest of blood vessels, and himself chalking abstractions on the night air. What goes on inside the body and inside the mind, he says, is just as important as the outside. If it were also as easy to paint, Erni's work would be much less mysterious to his admirers...
...rude blow from Washington filled the air with lamentations, explanations and evasions. An Internal Revenue Bureau spokesman unofficially explained the apparent reversal of the earlier ruling by pointing out that the Amos 'n' Andy transaction was a transfer of real property, since the show presumably could go on forever, even after the death of its originators (Charles Correll & Freeman Gosden). But the Jack Benny Show, without Benny, would undoubtedly collapse; therefore, Benny's personal services, rather than his real property, are involved...