Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apart from the theater, his greatest interest is surgery. Whenever he has time and a doctor's permission, he watches delicate operations in Manhattan or Hollywood hospitals. For more active relaxation, he plays golf (in the low 80s) or travels with the Brooklyn Dodgers. A close friend of Leo Durocher, the Bums' manager, he was the Lip's battery mate on a U.S.O. tour to the Orient. Periodically, Kaye frets about his health-which is phenomenally good-and gulps vitamins galore or retreats to an upstate New York health farm, where he hikes ten miles before breakfast...
...lightest (106 lbs.) of all the G.I.s at Cambridge. The Americans called themselves "Bull College," after their billets in the famed Bull Hotel. They practiced three times a week for four weeks, trying to learn the mysteries of bumping races. The boats line up one after another, two lengths apart, and each tries to catch the shell ahead. Once the prow of the overtaking boat actually touches the other's stern, the overtaken boat loses one place. (The best place to bump is in a narrow part of the river called the Gut, which gives rise to such...
...striking workmen, living in the gashouse neighborhood of Stamford's grubby South End, could look across an inlet to fashionable Shippan Point, where Plant Manager William Hoyt owns a house close by the Stamford Yacht Club. Even farther apart than these two worlds were the bare union headquarters above a local dime store and President Carey's ample office in New York's towering Chrysler Building...
...mission. Moslem and Hindu had drawn much more closely together in the last few months-but only in their opposition to the British Raj. On the issue of Pakistan -the Moslem demand for a separate state in north India-the Congress party and the Moslem League were still poles apart. Mahomed AH Jinnah, head of the Moslem League, threatened civil war for Pakistan...
...UNRRA's help is to end with 1946. The threat of hunger formed the background of disquieting political developments. Democratic forces lost strength when the middle-of-the-road Action Party flew apart in a row between its right wing and moderates. Off went former Premier Ferruccio Parri to form a new middle-class group...