Word: criss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes and 42 seconds, Harvard seemed to have bottled up the potent Tiger criss-cross offense in Saturday's basketball thriller enough to be on its way to its second league victory of the season...
...battle was said to have occurred within the same general area where U. S. planes and warships were criss-crossing the South Atlantic in a shoot-to-kill search for a raider which last week sank the American-owned 'Panamanian tanker "I. C. White...
...train took him south through Illinois, criss-crossing the meandering route of Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace. Joliet, Morris, Ottawa, LaSalle, Peoria. Local politicians climbed aboard, appeared beside him on the rear platform. The crowds that gathered to see & hear numbered in thousands. If they did not rock with enthusiasm, they listened carefully to Willkie's fervent voice. He did not spare himself. His voice began to croak...
...edge, and they were all time forcing the blades ruthlessly into slavery, that new land, and extremists in both way with Kansas. It was beautiful land, the richest prairie of all the continent, with the finest farmland, and the broadest rivers. For a decade and more it had been criss-crossed by the trails of the pioneers--the Santa Fe, the Oregon, and the California Trails all began at Independence, just at the lazy turn the Mississippi. But now it was crossed by grimmer tracks. The Freesoilers and the Slavers were pouring in, boding no good for the future...
...away. Down below in the valleys the woods have been cleared, the red earth turned and turned again with the plow, and planted with seed, so that the valley floor is flecked with patches of fertile green and yellow. All around are the gentle foothills of the Blue Ridge, criss-crossed with sparkling streams, and molded down into a leisurely alternation of heights and lowlands. It was here that Thomas Jefferson brought his bride, to live in a one-room cabin while he built his great house which he called Monticello. In twenty years he finished...