Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sabath countered with a short left to the jaw, then a short right cross with real steam behind it. New York's 200-lb. James Delaney stepped between them and stopped the battle before the bewildered sergeant at arms could parade the mace, the traditional symbol of law & order in the House...
...Attorney John Kelley Jr.-the man who prosecuted Axis Sally-didn't even bother to stand up. Quietly, almost sympathetically, he began cross-examining the 28-year-old Barnard honor graduate, onetime employee in the Department of Justice, who is on trial for espionage...
...Defense Attorney Stryker moved in for cross-examination the audience sat forward expectantly. But the great Thespian was surprisingly gentle. Beyond seeming to lose his temper once, and announcing twice for the jury's benefit that he, himself (unlike Wadleigh), had never gone to Oxford, he hardly seemed to warm up. He attempted unsuccessfully to get Wadleigh to say he had stolen documents from desks other than his own (including Hiss's) and turned the witness loose. At week's end the Government rested its case...
...Judy stepped down from the stand at week's end, many a spectator wondered how her story would sound under cross examination this week. But none denied that Judy and Archie had put on the brashest old-fashioned courtroom melodrama Washington had seen since the secret document replaced the mortgage as a prop for villains...
...year of his conversion to Roman Catholicism, Gill was commissioned to do the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral. Gill carved them in "what might be called an archaic manner; but I wasn't doing it on purpose, but only because I couldn't carve in any other way." Next came a commission to carve Prospero and Ariel for London's Broadcasting House. Gill transformed them into God the Father and God the Son. Finally he was asked to do a 55-ft. frieze for the League of Nations council hall at Geneva. Gill suggested...