Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before noon one day last week a B-29 labored into the skies over California's Muroc Army Air Base. To its duralumin bosom it clutched a precious burden: the Bell Aircraft Corp.'s rocket-propelled XS-1, a plane designed to fly more than 1,000 miles an hour. At 27,000 feet, the stub-winged, orange-colored XS-1 was released to begin its first power flight. It dropped heavily-300, 600, 800 feet. Then the rocket engine in its tail belched flame and it spurted ahead...
...machine expired, the U.S. heart seemed to soften. In February 1945, the U.S. met with other American republics in Mexico City to open the gate for U.N. Argentina was not invited. The Act of Chapultepec, however, pointed the way back into the fold. Argentina might regain the family bosom if she 1) agreed to a system of collective security in the Western Hemisphere, 2) wiped out Axis commercial influence and deported Axis spies, 3) declared war on the Axis...
...enormous gilt key to the New York City building on the Fairgrounds. ¶ Mr. Impellitteri and Park Commissioner Robert Moses also made a formal offer to give the U.N. the 350 acres of Flushing Meadow Park, if the U.N. would choose it as a permanent site. Nourished in the bosom of an urban community, the New York officials believed, the U.N. would find 350 acres enough. ¶Since the U.N. will remain in the New York area for at least four or five years, whatever permanent site is finally chosen, Russia's Andrei Gromyko leased a five-story apartment...
...chateau whose Second Empire shrubberies and wide, tawny avenues are described by Bernanos with vivid feeling. With her live her timid, pedantic father (who has written volumes of history but cannot stir a step without the counsel of his psychiatrist) and her psychotic grandmother (who still clutches to her bosom the keys of storage cupboards that have long ceased to exist). Of such as them, Chantal says simply: "What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline toward sadness and turn instinctively toward the night...
...presented to President Roosevelt by the Polish Government, and today hangs in Hyde Park. But the assignment Szyk enjoyed most was in 1924, when he was hired to paint El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakesh, Morocco. Sighs Szyk: "There were gazelles in the garden and dances of the bosom every night...