Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shocked at the discovery that the Navajo Indians face starvation and even death this winter (TIME, Nov. 3), the nation suddenly began sending them relief. The American Red Cross appropriated $100,000 for "immediate stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...
...American Red Cross, concerned over food conservation, advised housewives to stop using old cheese to bait mousetraps. Sprinkle it in the soup or pop it in the biscuits, instead, it advised...
Soon he was calling regularly at the teahouse. For long evenings he sat cross-legged and entranced while Yuki taught him the ritual of tea-drinking and a fascinating game in which two players vie for a paper hoop by trying to catch it on paper hooks held under the lower lip. In no time the young American was begging O-Yuki to marry...
Except for Holy Cross, B. C. annually turns out about the smoothest freshman team in the Boston area. This year's squad of ten men was hand-picked, mostly from two championship high school aggregations. Four team men played together on Brooklyn's leading high school team. Three others, all brothers, were the mainstays of Maine's Waterville High squad which copped 46 straight wins in three years. Five were elected to New York's all-metropolitan team...
...more class and to more quizzes, thought Vag as he bounced down the Emerson steps, practiced a jump turn across the walk, and set off cross country toward Widener. One more class and two more quizzes-held your glass for more gin fizzes-vacation loomed just behind that Saturday section man and not one bit farther. Vag brightened inwardly, hastened his step, and almost hollered "Track" at the crowd blocking...