Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week President Eisenhower appointed Tracy S. Voorhees, 66, a veteran troubleshooter, former (1949-50) Under Secretary of the Army and onetime U.S. Food Administrator for Occupied Areas, as his personal representative to coordinate work in resettling the Hungarian refugees. Then (after proclaiming a new $5,000,000 Red Cross Hungarian relief drive) the President boosted the number of refugees to be admitted to the U.S. from...
...from Toronto to Tasmania, seemed to catch up with him. The starch leaked out of him. Carelessly, he dropped his guard. A lopping left hook whistled out of nowhere, to separate him from his intellect. He climbed off the canvas at the count of nine; then a sharp right cross dropped him for good. It was only 2 min. 27 sec. of the fifth round...
...walking stick of Joseph of Cupertino-and sometimes, like the great St. Teresa of Avila, they had to be held down by main force. Bodies that should have been moldering in the grave were exhumed fresh and fragrant; sometimes they bled, as did that of St. John of the Cross when they cut off its finger. The Host at Mass once leapt by itself into the mouth of St. Catherine of Siena...
...arrest abruptly halted Wagner's lavish cross-country spree, in which he used up all but $4,575 of the original sum. Among other things, Wagner was reported to have spent more than $1800 on call girls during the last five days of his freedom...
...often quoted phrase, he stated, "It is proposed to reserve these new chairs for men working on the frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way that they cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties...