Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Based on an extensive cross-section survey of TIME'S 1,500,000 women readers...
...French Socialist Party had lost its vigor, and its attraction for French voters. All it had left was its honor, which it tossed away last week in a stupid double-cross that caused the fall of Premier André Marie's month-old government...
...Quebec City, Premier Maurice Duplessis got a gift from an admirer: the Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator San Martin from Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron...
Timing Is Everything. "Now here comes the moment," writes Potter in his best Punch style, "on which not only this match, but so much of the future of British sport was to turn. Score: forty-love. Smith at 51 [see cut] is about to cross over to serve to me (at P). When Smith gets to a point (K) not less than one foot and not more than two feet beyond the center of the court (I know now what I only felt then-that timing is everything in this gambit), Joad (standing at J2) called across...
...medal for saving his guests); his fabulous parties ("sumptuous pleasure campaigns," the papers called them); his romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor in 1898, "is not only the richest, but the handsomest unmarried New Yorker. He is a devoted golfer, an expert cross-country rider, a 'good gun,' a skillful fisherman, and a yachtsman of no mean seamanship. Sartorially, he is all that can be desired...