Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrying on a year-end custom established in 1946, Pollster George Gallup last week sent his interviewers out to ask a cross section of the U.S. public: "What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire the most?" The most admired, by a wide margin: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Winner Eisenhower (who also was top man in 1952) had as many votes as the combined total of the next two men on the list-Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Other high-ranking also-rans: Harry S. Truman, Adlai...
...reunited with the German land east of the Iron Curtain, but that day will come only when the Western world stands strong enough to force-without war-a Soviet withdrawal from Central Europe. He refuses to recognize the Oder-Neisse frontier, but is ready to promise not to cross it with troops...
...nurse spotted a woman patient who was watching the dance with childlike wonder as she squatted cross-legged in the shadows. The nurse talked soothingly to her for a while, pushed the hair back from her face, then put the tambourine in her open hand. The patient's fingers closed around it. With more coaxing, she shook it so that it tinkled. She smiled faintly. She shook it again, harder, and the nurse asked, "Isn't that fun?" The patient murmured, "Yes, I believe...
Clasby, who formerly had been named to the All-Ivy League team, the U.P. All-Eastern team, and the sports writers' All-Eastern team, was followed in the balloting by quarterback Peter Van of Army, passing ace Richard Carr of Columbia, and end Henry Lemire from Holy Cross. Crimson fullback John Culver received honorable mention for the award...
...that is. The Greeks of the epic are the sponge fishermen of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The Trojans are the "Conchs," their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in Key West. After newsreeling through a sponge auction and a Greek Orthodox Epiphany, including the inevitable shot of Greek youths diving for a gold cross, the picture at last shows a little fight...