Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live with her mother. She still had friends: who had turned up in Finland but first husband Tuure, once again in high Kremlin favor and wearing the insignia of a Red army general. Last week he was in Helsinki, busily plotting a wave of new strikes to blanket Finland...
...sight of scaffolding, the smell of fresh cement, the sound of winches have become common in cities where until recently weeds had spread a green blanket over the rubble. Large new neon signs began to appear, and at night-when darkness hid the war scars-Frankfurt's Bahnhofsplatz looked like a corner of Times Square. Shop windows were full of goods. Once surly salesmen now treated the customer with the respect due a man who had real money in his pockets...
...York State farmers have a network of their own-the Rural Radio Network. Its six stations and two affiliates blanket the state with a clear FM voice and programs tailored to the rural taste. The latest issue of FM and Television concludes that RRN is a boon not only to farmers, but also to the future of FM broadcasting. The network does a job of coverage with its eight stations that an AM hookup of 30 could not match...
Thousands of embattled undergraduates halted the fracas to stand and watch as two youths raced into the wooden stands and snatched a blanket from over a couple who were engaged in "amorous activities." It was probably the best-witnessed indiscretion since the Harvard off-side penalty that called back Cannon's touchdown...
Dean Bender used student dismissal cases to illustrate how college organization works. Each student who comes up for dismissal, he said, is treated as an individual case. There is no blanket ruling, except violation of the parietal rules concerning women in dormitories, which almost automatically leads to dismissal. But the Faculty has the final say in every case...