Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised white platform in Delhi's Untouchable colony sat the Mahatma, cross-legged on a white cushion, a cooling wet white kerchief covering his bald head. Overhead glimmered a lone 80-watt electric bulb. Reluctantly he assented to the splitting of India. "What is past is past," he mourned. "I cannot blame the Viceroy for what has happened. It was an act of Congress and the League...
...told it in books out last week.* Though the authors may not have intended them to be, their accounts are a revealing documentation of the harum-scarum behavior of the press under stress. "The whole thing," wrote Cornelius Ryan (then of the London Telegraph, now of TIME), "was a cross between a Marx Brothers movie, Hellzapoppin and an Irish wake...
Died. Ex-Sergeant John Hannah, V.C., 25, R.A.F. hero, one of the youngest soldiers ever to receive Britain's highest decoration, the Victoria Cross; of tuberculosis; in London...
Meanwhile, cross country and seccer men were finding the going a bit rougher, with the harriers bogging down badly in seventh place at the Heps and trailing Yale in the Big Three meet. The booters wound up on the short and of a 3 to 2 count against the Elis in a game that gradually turned into a mudbath...
...There's an arcade in Naples that they call the Gallería Umberto Primo. It's a cross between a railroad station and a church. You think you're in a museum till you see the bars and the shops. Once this Gallería had a dome of glass, but the bombings of Naples shattered this skylight, and tinkling glass fell like cruel snow...