Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a while the automatic pilot went out of commission and the passengers stood watches at the wheel to spell the crew. The drinking water turned brown. Those who could eat chewed miserably on bologna sandwiches and cheese crackers, or starchy concoctions slapped up by lola Nicholas, a fry-cook who had never been aboard a ship before...
That was the end. Governor Turner sold him for slaughter. Last week Rupert traveled his last mile to the Iowa Packing Co. His carcass (which had once fetched $38,000 on the hoof) brought $228 at 16? a pound. Most of Rupert would be ground into bologna...
...Italy, the sentiment had not yet broken through the surface so visibly, but the Communists moved fast to help it along. Cachin went to Italy bearing the word. Sure enough, the evening after Cachin arrived, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti in a speech at Bologna said "complete" collaboration between East and West was possible. He denied Russia was planning a "revolutionary war." The same day the Reds halted their "campaign of noncollaboration" in the factories. Reports circulated that woolly-minded Giuseppe Saragat was considering a new "unity" bloc between his recently anti-Communist group of Socialists and the Nenni (pro-Stalin...
...academic task force debouched from Nicholas Murray Butler Library and cut across the campus north to Low Memorial Library. In the procession marched the presidents and representatives of 310 U.S. and 38 foreign universities and colleges, ranged in order of seniority-from the University of Bologna (founded 1088) down to New York State University, which so far exists only on paper. Oxford was represented by British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, the University of Pennsylvania by President Harold Stassen, Kansas State College by President Milton Eisenhower (whom some nearsighted spectators in the crowd of 19,000 greeted with applause and whispers...
Communists did more than talk. A new rash of Communist-inspired strikes broke out in Italy. In the north, dairy and ricefield workers struck. Sicilian dockworkers and Sardinian coal miners threatened to join. In the Red fortress of Bologna, Communists called a 24-hour general strike. The objects of Communist parliamentary and trade-union tactics: to trip up the government as it inched toward stability...