Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lined the streets in silence. "We are too ashamed to talk about it," said a Jerusalem cabdriver. In synagogues, rabbis denounced the murder. At Latrun, a detachment of Abdullah's Arab Legion presented arms as the ambulance passed. Beneath the dead man's folded hands rested his broad-brimmed Scout...
This week Britain's leading plastic surgeon begins a three-month lecture tour in the U.S. and Canada. At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., "Archie" McIndoe, a modest, broad-backed man of 48, will address an alumni association filled with old classmates and students. (He went to Mayo from New Zealand on a fellowship in 1924 and stayed on to teach...
...when the great dusty-rose curtain goes up this week? There would be few breath-taking solos, although dark-eyed Prima Ballerina Yvette Chauviré would certainly draw a few gasps with her cameolike dancing. Few of the 16 ballets would be familiar-and none would be as broad and nappy as U.S. ballets like Billy the Kid. Chicago's big stage was just right for the Paris ballet's specialty: brilliant spectacle in the great tradition, plus the bold and polished choreography of a greying little man known to balletomanes the world over, Serge Lifar, a onetime...
Crowed the Budapest radio: "The Lutheran church is now led by Bishops Zoltan Turoczy and Josef Szabo, both trusted by the broad masses belonging to the church. An announcement regarding forthcoming elections within the Lutheran church will be published shortly...
Chickens & Whistles. Ever since the Conquistadores, the long (1,071 miles), broad Magdalena has been Colombia's chief traffic artery. It was always silt-laden, a river continually chewing at its banks. The coming of steam made things worse; woodburning stern-wheelers stopped to cut into the tropical forests for fuel. That made for greater erosion, and also for a quicker rain runoff, with the result that the river could be high one day, low a few days later. Sandbars piled up so fast that steamers could not follow the same course from one day to the next...