Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Avenue. It was held at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend, when most businesses were shut and thousands of New Yorkers out of town. But though there was little cheering or confetti throwing, two million people turned out to watch. For noise, costumes, endurance and cessation of cross-town traffic, it beat anything Manhattan had seen for many years...
...princess and her sister Fatmeh were in the U.S. merely to study the Red Cross and other welfare bodies, but Washington had political motives for being nice. Soviet Russia, quiescent since last winter, was rumbling again on Persia's northern border. Persia might need help...
...rioting was breaking down railroad traffic between parts of India and Pakistan. Unless it was soon restored, both nations, especially Pakistan, would be economically crippled. Fearing that the Punjab rioting would spread, millions of Hindus and Moslems prepared to cross borders in a transfer of population greater than Europe had ever seen...
Collecting customers was harder, until Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought a comprehensive cross-section for Williamsburg, Va. Nowadays museum directors come from Wichita and even Hawaii to buy Edith Halpert's wares, at markups ranging from 100 to 1.000%. They do their choosing behind closed doors in her Downtown Gallery (in midtown Manhattan), which specializes in such U.S. contemporaries as Charles Sheeler, Ben Shahn and Jack Levine, while turning its real profits from folk...
...Cervantes]. According to his satirical wife, this soldier earns nothing, goes to Mass, stands gossiping at the Guadalajara Gate, comes home to dinner at two, spends the afternoon and evening gambling, and returns at midnight, when he has supper, if there is any, makes the sign of the Cross, yawns, and goes to bed, where he tosses composing a sonnet, for he is a poet...