Word: bay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoided the public eye. She devoted herself to her family and friends, entertained the local Women's Republican Club, was always ready to help charity drives and benefits for servicemen. Every year on her birthday, the family gathered at her Long Island home, at Oyster Bay...
...refugees who feared that the Russian threat might reach into Sweden for them crowded into the Prolific, a blunt-nosed fishing schooner, about half as big as the Mayflower. They had sailed over 6,000 miles of ocean to reach a U.S. haven. They had weathered storms in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre. They had traded their clothes for grapes and coconuts in Madeira and broken their steering gear in a hurricane off Bermuda. Under leaky hatches in fetid, 90° heat, their women had nursed children sick with chicken pox. After 60 days at sea, they...
...killed her lover, John Lester Mee, with a .22 pistol. In sentencing Cootch-Dancer Schmidt to 15 yeacs for manslaughter (TIME, Feb. 2), the judges had chided her for "appearing nude on the deck of [Mee's] yacht like a nymph," and for "swimming naked in [Havana] Bay." Said Toledo-born Satira: "They just don't understand our customs...
...Throughout the leadership race, hard realities had been the sole concern of George Drew and his backers. Drew's first and most potent backers were the big businessmen: Toronto's "Bay Street Boys" and their allies from Montreal's St. James Street. But Candidate Drew had not depended wholly on them. With smiling charm and political skill he had lined up the leaders from eight provinces before the convention opened. The one exception: Saskatchewan, pledged to Favorite Son John Diefenbaker, champion of a Bill of Rights for Canada...
...convention time, only a few of Drew's Bay Street backers were around his headquarters in the Chateau Laurier, and fewer still were at the Coliseum. The tall, well-tailored figure of Edward William Bickle, an investment broker and Drew's best friend, caught a bit of the limelight. Notably out of the limelight was another Drew crony and constant adviser, George McCullagh. One of the most powerful Canadian publishers (the Toronto Globe & Mail), McCullagh stayed away from Ottawa lest he scare off Drew supporters who still leaned a bit toward John Bracken's "ordinary man" position...