Word: commune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just above Dubuque, the Coast Guard's Del Commune ran into real trouble last week. The Mississippi's Dam No. 11 was frozen tight; the little towboat had to stand by for five hours while men thawed out the valves with hot water, cut away 20-inch slabs of ice from behind the gates, finally nursed them open. Then the Del Commune moved upstream through the locks-into an icefield that stretched from bank to bank as far as the eye could...
...Commune's men looked at the ice, at each other, at the 85-ton ice plow attached to their boat's blunt bow. Their job, if they could do it, was to clear the Mississippi's channel so that oil barges could get to Minneapolis by the first week in April, two weeks before shipments had ever gone through before. Behind them, in St. Louis, the barges waited. Ahead, in Minneapolis, war factories waited for the oil. But the ice was thick, the weather still bitter cold, the Mississippi stubborn...
...modern Houses, rather than the traditional and hallowed halls of the Yard. There will be some, of course, quartered in the southern-most part of the Yard, but the majority will live on the other side of Massachusetts Avenne's trolley tracks. All Freshmen, nevertheless, will dine and commune in one or another of the various Houses...
...which, flanked by lovely bushes and protruding feet, wind down to the most respectable part of the cemetery. Here, beside one of the five artificial ponds, one may inspect the mausoleums of prominent Bostonians. The Cabots have an aperture in the roof of their tomb through which they may commune with...
...apples and of blooming, apple-cheeked women, were by France's late great Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir. Some of them had been painted during the Franco-Prussian War while German troops laid siege to Paris, some while mobs roamed the Paris streets and fired public buildings during the Commune of 1871. The last of them had been painted while World War I's Big Bertha was dropping shells on the Tuileries...