Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many states, as long as some pittance goes to a genuine charity, but the Tompkins-Rabin committee promised, after the first round of witnesses last week, to seek legislation to end the charity rackets. Worried administrators of such legitimate charities as the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and the various Community Chests pointed out that their fund-raising and administrative costs rarely exceed 12%. There was widespread fear that worthy causes would suffer financial loss in the exposure of the rackets...
...World War II. He seemed to have been born to fly; he was a quiet, controlled fellow who moved with the easy grace of a natural athlete. As a Navy fighter pilot, he fought from the Marshall Islands to the Philippines, shot down six Japanese planes, won the Navy Cross. But like thousands of other young military airmen, he had got away from airplanes fast after...
...America. Practicing overtime and all through the summer, he made the varsity at Long Island's Andrew Jackson High School at 16. It is Cousy's quiet boast that "I've never missed a game since." The brag covers four years of varsity play at Holy Cross, where he won his All-America rating, and three years of play in the faster company of the pros. In all, it amounts to close to 500 consecutive games. Durable Cousy, now 25, figures that a careful training regimen, e.g., no smoking, no drinking, will let him play for another...
...settled in Florida's remote swamp country, three years later won a Scribner's novelette contest, turned out two popular novels before The Yearling (1938) won her fame and a fortune in royalties. In 1942 she accurately recorded the manners & morals of her adopted neighbors (Cross Creek), when death came was hard at work on a biography of Virginia Novelist Ellen Glasgow...
...rising from the ruins . . . Everywhere, we witnessed an ardent, admirable patriotism, and also moving demonstrations of warm friendship for France. If war doesn't come before, Poland in ten years will be a great nation . . . She profoundly wants peace. But there is no doubt that if the Germans cross the Oder, there will...