Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lombardo has always walked the tightrope between the Communist Party line and Mexican nationalism, and verbally has always managed to reconcile the two positions. In general, however, he has been closer to the Moscow line, and quicker to take it up, than the Mexican Communist Party itself, which as a result has had to go through repeated painful purges...
Even when, on the evening of March 18, we turned out to watch the red hot ribbons winding down the cone, there was no inkling of violence and the next day we took time out to get a closer view of the molten streams on higher levels. Four nights later, though, ominous rumblings shook the ground under us, and a new form of rain descended on us rain which cut right through our tents...
...years . . . have attempted to stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes . . . have sought money from the public purse to help carry out their plans, concealing as far as possible what the money was used for." Alongside this statement balance the financial statements of the TVA, which edges closer toward a profit each year. Against this claim range the close financial surveillance that Congress has maintained over the TVA, a control that was loosened only by the needs of wartime security. With this same devotion to realities, Senator Taft has seized on the appropriations for Oak Ridge and other...
...weeks' strike truce in the Maritime coal industry had brought miners and owners no closer. So last week 13,500 members of the United Mine Workers, District 26, walked out of the mines for a second time, and shut down 30% of Canada's coal industry...
...Varsity couldn't have come closer. With four minutes remaining, and the Cornellians ahead 43 to 41, Captain Saul Mariaschin let fly with a long one-hander that dropped in, ostensibly tying the score. Referee Matty Begovich ruled, however, that Mariaschin had fouled Cornell's Ed Arrison on the play, and the basket was nullified. When Arrison's free throw rolled off the rim, six-foot-eight...