Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killer waved his pistol at the frightened spectators, ran into the street and got into his car. Just outside town, two state troopers spotted him and began a careering cross-country chase. After six miles, Moon was forced to stop when one of his tires was shot out. As the police approached him with drawn revolvers, Moon jumped from his bullet-riddled car, put his pistol to his throat and fired, ripping out part of his tongue. This week he was expected to recover and stand trial for murder. Said a policeman at Connellsville, his home: "It should never have...
Blons, a quiet village in Austria's picturesque Great Walser Valley, was only one of many corners of Europe caught in the backlash of a deceptively mild winter that had suddenly turned vicious. Cross-Channel shipping was brought to a dead stop for two days as winds, roaring in from the Atlantic, whipped the seas into a fury. Far to the south in Italy, gondolas lay at their moorings in Venice under coverlets of snow. Even in Algeria, the snowplows were busy on the streets of Constantine...
...rest of the top ten is composed of Notre Dame, Oklahoma City, Holy Cross, New England's only representative, which dropped from sixth to eighth, Minnesota, and George Washington, in that order...
After the 6.2-mile cross-country race, the other competitors (from Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Yugoslavia) were still gasping. The Russians entered five girls, and they flashed across the finish line in order, 1-2-3-4-5, a full four minutes ahead of the nearest fun-loving capitalist...
Because sports skeptics have questioned the will to win of the play-for-pay boys, Promoter Kramer decided to set up a jackpot-prize tournament at each of the 88 U.S. cities the pros will visit in their 25,000-mile cross-country junket. Where the take is fat enough, as it has been in New York and Philadelphia, the players will be shooting for $4,000 to the winner, will have to settle for $2,500, $1,500 or $1,000 in defeat. In other cities, they will play for comparable percentages of the gate...