Word: black
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weather Bureau meteorologists spotted the glowering, doughnut-shaped lady far out at sea, east of the Bahamas, early last week. They nicknamed her "Bessie's Hurricane." Red and black hurricane flags went up along the Florida coast. Fishing smacks and yachts scudded for home ports. Floridians methodically, almost casually, shuttered their homes, secured everything that could move, filled bathtubs with drinking and cooking water, got out candles and kerosene lamps...
...plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem which had been renamed the Givat Herzl (Herzl's Hill). In groups of ten, farmers, workers, businessmen, old settlers and new immigrants...
...city to set up dirty, mat-shed colonies. They had lived by begging or scratching in garbage piles. Already, said Communist authorities, 400,000 refugees had left the city-half "voluntarily," the remainder "sent." Still to go were more than 1,000,000 refugee landowners, "loafers" or petty black-marketeers, paupers, unemployed factory hands and dismissed government workers...
Died. Niall Diarmid Campbell, 77, tenth Duke of Argyll, hereditary chief (Mac Cailean Mhor, a rank created in 1286) of famed Clan Campbell (green, black, navy blue tartan); at his castle in Argyll, Scotland. A crotchety, feudal-minded bachelor, the multi-titled duke (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Marquis of Lome and Kintyre) regarded the modern world as a personal outrage, once threatened to toss bureaucratic "snoopers" into his dungeons...
...most brilliant of all Pinkham advertising ideas was Dan's proposal to put his mother's face on every ad. The result was inspired to the last detail-"the neat black silk dress, the tortoise-shell comb, the white fichu fastened with a cameo brooch," the perpetual smile, the sagacious and composed elderly features. Here was everybody's grandmother...