Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British mission, was singing a Greek ballad, Mavra Matya (Black Eyes) when a burst of Communist machine-gun fire thudded into the building. One gendarme was killed trying to douse the lights; the others got down under the tables. Casey went on singing in the darkness to cover the departure of two Greeks who sneaked out, reached the shore, swam half a mile to the Hastings and told what had happened. The Hastings put a landing party ashore and fired its four-inch guns into the black mountainside. After that, no more was heard from the raiders...
Each month, from beleaguered Changchun and Mukden, 140,000 people press through the opposing military lines and cruel no man's land toward Tientsin, Peiping and the hope of a living. The distance they cover is upwards of 800 miles. The ordeal they undergo, as culled from my own observation in Manchuria and North China and from the press in Nanking, would need a Tu Fu to compass...
...teach five classes a day," she said, "a total of 176 students. Under these circumstances, I can barely cover the subject matter of my courses, let alone give my students the individual attention they need." In addition, she presides an hour each day over the study hall. She is chairman of the student assembly, chairman of the School Spirit Committee, "homeroom" adviser for 35 students, coach for junior class plays, chairman of the faculty social committee...
...tough week all around for consumers. To pay for the new wage gains of John L. Lewis & Co., soft coal mines boosted their prices 4? to 50? a ton (retail equivalent: up to $1.25 a ton). Though hard coal producers had raised prices only a month ago to cover higher wages, one of the biggest of them, Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., Inc., raised the ante again, by as much as $1.10 a ton. A few hours after the rail-wage fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission to boost passenger fares...
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