Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything had a picture-postcard look: the walled city of Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...
...week Manchurian truce by eight days, they were not so sure. Lo Lung-Chi, spokesman for the liberal Democratic League and one of China's keenest politicians, offered his analysis: "The Generalissimo is the kind of man who will rein in his horse at the edge of the cliff...
Many broadcasters view Cliff Durr as an alarming threat to free radio, a harbinger of Government ownership. His background only partially qualifies him as a socialist reformer. Born to an aristocratic Alabama family, he won a Rhodes scholarship in 1920, earned his degree in jurisprudence and his "blue" (letter) in rugby at Oxford. Back in Alabama, he became a corporation attorney, married Justice Hugo Black's sister-in-law. Some time after joining RFC's legal division, he tied with a colleague in a stenographers' vote for the "biggest hayseed" on the staff. He was a director...
Spreading themselves beyond the realm of Greater Boston, '01 and '26 reunions will center around the Cliff Hotel at Scituate, while '31 will go as far afield as Poland Spring, Maine, for its fifteenth. Members of '31 left yesterday noon on special cars of the "Flying Yankee"; they will return tomorrow in time for the baseball game...
...running for the first time after being shelved with adjusted either had recurrences of their old till or contracted new ones. Dong Panic after taking third in the 100, pulled a muscle on his first broad jump attempt. Similar fates befell Ted Washington in the quarter mile and Cliff Wharton in the low hurdles...