Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since those days, the pendulum has swung back a bit. Washington's Birthday, instead of being jeered at as a chauvinistic relic of D.A.R. promotion, is taken for what it is worth. It's a holiday in commemoration of an old patriot who undeniably pulled us out of a shaky situation, and, for all his shortcomings, managed to hold a few colonies together after the shouting and shooting had passed away. He might have been king, the historians tell us. He refused--and that's favor we might well thank...
...matches in three days is the bruising Washington's Birthday weekend vacation arranged for the Varsity wrestling team, currently boasting a record of five wins and one loss. Today Chief Boston's squad face a reportedly weak Dartmouth squad, returning to Cambridge in time to meet Brown at the Blockhouse Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock...
...story about the Wisconsin-Iowa game has rocked the campus to its foundations. The students are up in arms. The daily Cardinal . . . headlines intimate that I wrote the article and that I was a Judas, a traitor, a high-blown intellectual who betrayed his alma mater. Today is my birthday, and it is 15 below zero. I am whimpering by my fireplace . . . expecting any moment to hear the roar of the crowd as they march up my street to lynch me. ... I couldn't find anything inaccurate in the story, except it gave the impression Wisconsin was the rougher...
Hindus, not Moslems, stoned Gandhi's house when he went to Calcutta to encourage communal peace last August. On his 78th birthday, Oct. 2, Gandhi spoke sadly: "Why do I receive all these congratulations? . . . The time was when whatever I said, the masses followed. But today I am a lone voice in India." In November, a TIME correspondent went to see him. Gandhi said: "Can you squat?" The reporter squatted. Gandhi at one point in the interview said: "Three hundred years is as nothing." He returned to the present: "The fear haunts me that India must yet go through...
...attack touched off retaliation and counterretaliation. On the Syrian border, the Haganah dynamited a bridge. Arabs renewed their attacks on Jewish traffic between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, in one ambush killed seven Jews. At week's end, the fighting again abated for a day as Arabs celebrated the birthday of Mohamed. It was an ominous holiday. Throughout the Arab world, mosques reverberated with fiery anti-partition speeches made in the name of the Prophet. On the streets of Damascus, Syrian Boy Scouts sold "Rescue Palestine" buttons. The funds they raised would be used to prepare the full-scale...