Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between the fingers clutched to his belly. In the telephone booth he had been worked over by three men and stabbed. The three hoodlums had raced out of the building, fought off Milletti and got away. At the hospital, Willie's wife, Beatrice, sat beside him until, around midnight, he was ready for the operating room. Then Willie managed a thin grin and said: "Why don't you put some lipstick on and quit crying? You better go home and take care of your kids." Four hours later he was dead...
...meat, eggs, gasoline, cleaning solvent and rags were flaming. River-hemmed Manhattan, which must pump its lifeblood of traffic through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south-and westbound long-distance circuits were knocked...
...democratic terms. It certainly wanted peace, but not at any price. Said Britain's Ernest Bevin: "We may even be called 'comrades' again. You never know." Then he added grimly that Russia was still talking peace while carrying on a "policy of promoting unsettlement all around...
...bleeding from a million wounds. It is a country of refugees and prisoners. Vast hordes of peasants have left their meager land to escape the Red terror. In ramshackle huts on the fringes of provincial towns, they sit hungrily day after day. When a foreign newsman appears, they gather around him. Why does the U.S. not send a torrent of aid? Most of those who ask this question have kin or acquaintances who came back rich from America. To them the U.S. is a bottomless well of wealth...
...other hand, Scullay, perhaps the best all-around sailor on the Crimson team, is new to dinghy competition. A past champion in the bigger One-Ten sailboat class, Scullay adapted himself to the dinghy a year ago last fall and he captured the freshman intercollegiate championship...