Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost continuously for eleven hours, North Koreans attacked a ridge position held by a valiant Negro platoon led by Lieut. Harry Sutton of The Bronx, N.Y. Bayonet-wielding Reds reached Sutton's trenches and turned a U.S. machine gun on the Americans. But Sutton's men hung on, and finally, after receiving reinforcements, drove the enemy...
...missed them before and are willing to go a long way to see them, The Raven and A Lover's Return opened yesterday at the Ascot at 183 Street and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, Paris 1900 is at the Embassy (42nd and Park...
Twenty years old and cute as a Powers model, blue-eyed Roberta Peters, daughter of a Bronx shoe salesman, had been hired last January after an audition. Impresario Sol Hurok had brought her to the Met after hearing her sing in her teacher's Manhattan studio. She was set to work on the coloratura role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute, due for a Metropolitan Opera performance in early 1951. Like other neophytes at the Met, she spent the rest of her time attending classes in the Met's affiliated Kathryn Turney...
...City. All residents black out. Prepare for atomic attack!" Then he turned up the amplifier volume, producing a sirenlike screaming sound. The windows of the Gordons' third-floor apartment-like those of most of the apartments around it-were open. The results of his announcement on the teeming Bronx exceeded Stanley's fondest expectations...
...American hospitality, concluded Oxonian Robinson, "I raise a foaming mug of pink ice-cream in ginger-beer (the national beverage) and pledge my sincere gratitude. But a Bronx cheer for the neons, the nylons, and the nut-melbas-each one of the Twenty-Eight Flavours-and Odo-ro-no, Times Square, the subways, the Empire State, drugstores, candy and campuses ... O Lord...