Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...differences with Churchill were continuous and lasted until the end of the war. At first they arose over Churchill's coolness toward the cross-Channel invasion. Eisenhower, in fact, said that Churchill feared the bloodletting of a direct thrust at the Germans. Almost up to D-day itself, and while all plans for it had long since been put in motion, the Prime Minister plumped for an all-out attack against the "soft underbelly" of Europe (Italy, the Balkans, southern France). In this contest Ike proved just as stubborn as Churchill, and won every exchange...
...Throat Hospital. Mrs. Breckinridge answered briskly: "Oh, yes. A little baby's eyes are wonderful. We'll call for them tomorrow." Another Manhattan hospital had called to say that some parents had offered the corneas of their dead child so that another person might see. The Red Cross would handle the delivery to the eye bank. A telegram lay on Mrs. Breckinridge's desk saying that the next of kin were offering the eyes of a man dying in a Cincinnati hospital. Mrs. Breckinridge arranged for an airline to fly them east, carefully refrigerated in salt solution...
Last week, Uday Shankar was back in the U.S. Americans would see him dance again, but this time only on the screen. Shankar had spent three years and a fortune in rupees, making a two-hour movie about India, told largely in dance; and he is planning a cross country U.S. tour to show it. Audiences would find Kalpana's story as jumbled as a dream-full of plots and subplots, visions and fantasies, and plays within plays. At times, the story borders on absurdity. But as a picture of Indian dancing, Kalpana would tell them nearly everything...
Though intended mainly for Harvard graduates, the center's facilities will be open to Yale men as well. It will handle messages between alumni, keeping a file of notices, with a cross-index listing of the sender and addressee...
...Gelotte it has been something of a business bonanza too. Last Saturday, for instance, he sent two cameramen and $1,000 worth of cinema machinery to Ithaca for the Dartmouth-Cornell fray, to two Boston area high school games, and to Worcester for the Holy Cross-Fordham game; and he sent four cameramen and $2,000 worth of equipment to Soldiers Field for two shootings of the Brown-Harvard encounter and to Newton for two filmings of the Boston College-William & Mary game...