Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steaming locomotives lay helplessly. Their crews, except for one engineman, were dead. Around them, like spilled matchsticks, were the baggage car (six dead) and the twisted Pullmans. In one, a rabbi whose legs were pinned under shapeless rubble murmured prayers for the injured and dying. Near him, a Red Cross worker chattered and sang to a blur of protruding arms and legs and bloodstained pillows while she tried to free her hand from a crushing weight. In another mess of metal, a soldier whose uncle lay dead near his feet quietly sipped water while he waited for rescuers...
...much about the mail. But in one of the huts, jauntily labeled Ice Cap Inn, three girls of the American Red Cross battle the loneliness and-boredom which breeds cabin fever.They mend G.I. clothes, darn socks, organize skiing and fishing trips with dogged gaiety. They gallantly journey to the isolated outposts for dances. In a country where all native settlements are off limits, where at times even the radio is blotted out by the crackle of northern lights, these Red Cross girls come as close as any one could to spelling home...
Last week, the American Red Cross launched its annual drive. It was asking for $60 million to maintain, among other things, this outlying post in Greenland. It will be needed...
...beyond the usual peacetime expenditures for domestic disaster and sick relief, it has a large budget for foreign relief. Last year the Red Cross spent $2.5 million in Austria alone. This year it has already scheduled distribution of more than $5 million worth of supplies to Rumania and Hungary...
...addition to the regular rebuttal period, the debate will include cross-examination of each speaker by the opposing team...