Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, while the party rested in the walled town of Chioshan, Communists attacked it. Nationalist defenders placed their ammunition dump next to the missionaries' quarters. When shells began to fall, the missionaries took cover in the basement, and prayed again. Nationalist reinforcements arrived, and the Communists withdrew...
Thirty-six hundred boys bunked in a wartime bomber plant and commuted to conference sessions in a fleet of 60 buses. The basement of Cleveland's massive Public Auditorium housed 1,600 girls (a minor crisis developed when they found only one mirror to every ten young ladies). Twenty-five Methodist bishops turned out for the occasion, as well as a couple of hundred foreign delegates...
...Alice Wynekoop, Chicago physician who gained tabloid fame in 1933 by murdering her daughter-in-law on the Wynekoop basement operating table, went free on parole after serving 13 years and nine months of her 25-year term...
Fame first came to Sir Bernard through the infamous Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. In 1910, Dr. Crippen poisoned his wife, buried her in quicklime in the basement and ran off with his typist. Before Scotland Yard was sure that a murder had been committed, Spils and his microscope identified something found in the basement as a bit of human skin with an appendectomy scar. Ships at sea were alerted and Dr. Crippen, despite his disguise, was nabbed in the St. Lawrence before his ship landed...
...Championship. Unlike the mammoth A.B.C. tourney (in which 18,000 entrants compete), this was for the nation's 168 best bowlers. Only the strongest survived the 100-game grind. Halfway through, thumbs and middle fingers began to swell. In the "bowlers' paddock" in the armory's basement, liniment was rubbed-on sore left legs and left hips. When the 16 finalists dug in for the final 32 games, Wilman pushed into the lead by a fraction of a point. The crowd roared when the pins went down. A local boy, he was the crowd's choice...