Word: criss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This second and smaller section looks slightly more like the conventional cellar, with the ceiling now criss-crossed by bare pipes. Several rooms, such as the noise and anechoic chambers, are of a completely technical nature. The curved eastern end of the building squeezes several rooms into pie-shaped sectors...
...January 5th, nine ambitious men gathered at City Hall to elect a Mayor of Cambridge. Today, seven weeks and 841 futile ballots later, the City Council is still unable to decide which one among them shall serve as the chief executive. The filibuster has seen the Council Chamber criss-crossed by vicious political tracers, it has turned simple ambition into bitter perversity, and has delayed vital legislation. Resulting from a hopelessly disorganized political system and a calculated smear campaign by a few professional politicians, the lengthy stalemate can only give the Councilmen enough rope to hang themselves and possibly...
...Varsity, the same eleven young men who started against Holy Criss are slated to be on hand for today's kickoff. Harlow hasn't made a change in his "A" team for almost two weeks, and the stability of the situation should produce greater cohesion in the Crimson attack...
Suggestions flew like criss-crossing rockets. Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce said sadly: "It's unfortunate UNO couldn't have picked a place where it would be more welcome." The New York Times dug up the fact, and printed it as a broad hint, that "Mr. Roosevelt felt that the Azores would be an ideal place for a world capital...
...Ground, High Ground. This week the beachhead thundered in one of the toughest battles U.S. troops and their British allies have yet fought. They were still on the ground they had taken in the first few days, a low plain criss-crossed with creeks and drainage ditches where front-line infantrymen had to take cover in waist-deep water from German fire...