Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kiefer, who wore a helmet with "Dixie" boldly stenciled on it, had been executive officer of the old Yorktown at the Coral Sea battle (where he won the D.S.M.), and at Midway (where the York sank and he got the Navy Cross for heroism). There he had jumped from the ship and shattered his right leg and ankle...
...release of the twelve members of the Polish underground convicted in Warsaw of sabotage against Russia; 2) an election law that would guarantee a fair election in Poland; 3) the withdrawal of the Red Army from Poland before the election; 4) the right of correspondents and the Red Cross to circulate freely in Poland...
Yesterday the team travelled down to Camp Edwards, in Falmouth, to oppose the Army. Saturday they play host to Holy Cross on Soldiers Field; the Crusaders have beaten Yale, 10 to 0, and Brown, 10 to 1, and Coach Stahl will...
...Judas), grandfather (Peter) and great-grandfather (Christus). The current Christus, Alois Lang, lives in a barn behind his family's famed hotel (now Divisional HQ). Only possible hindrance to 54-year-old Lang's candidacy will be the grueling ordeal of hanging for 30 minutes on the cross...
...cross between two bee varieties (Carniolan and Italian), the Squamish bees were brought to the Squamish River Valley from Holland 35 years ago by a Belgian immigrant. Now there are some 50 colonies of about 60,000 bees each. To protect the strain, the British Columbia provincial government has barred the importation of other bees into Squamish Valley. Entomologists fear that because the Squamish is a hybrid, its reluctance to sting may not last. But Feedham believes that by long breeding it has now become a distinct new strain. He looks forward hopefully to a honey-producing bee so gentle...