Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal occasions, when many guests are invited to Chiang's household, Chen almost never appears. Yet with probably no other person, not excepting Madame Chiang, does the Generalissimo spend more of his waking hours. In Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home high above the south bank. Watchers would see two silent figures in the Gimo's power launch -Chiang in unadorned uniform, Chen in mandarin gown, reading each other's thoughts, rarely uttering a word...
After lavishing praise on everybody, coach Mikkola made it clear that he was a bit chagrined over the official decision on Trimble's Nonagonal record-breaking toss of 205 feet, 1 inch. "Actually," claimed the Harvard mentor, "it was a cross wind, not a following wind, and at any rate, there should have been wind meters available...
...tried by a denazification court. But whether or not he is cleared, the little Bavarian town of Oberammergau (pop. 3,944) will probably need a new Jesus. By 1950, greying Alois Lang will be 59 and too old for his Passion Play ordeal of carrying a 100-lb. cross and hanging from it in make-believe crucifixion for 22 muscle-tearing minutes...
...house organ of the Christian Nationalists, "The Cross and the Flag," is personally published by Gerald L.K. Smith in Detroit. In a recent issue, Smith commented: "We have known for some time that the so called Conference of Christians and Jews was a program of fakery, hypocrisy ...set up to deceive mislead, and exploit a bunch of simpletons...." Of the Fair Employment Practises Commission, Smith said, "It is a trick being promoted by Negro political bosses and Jewish political bosses...
...heats were rowed yesterday on the Charles over the one and five-sixteenths Henley course. Winthrop and Lowell led the first heat with times of 7.26 and 7.28; Eliot and Leverett the second, in 7:26 and 7:31. A cross wind prevailed during the first race, shifting to a following wind in the second...