Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopeful. Stocky, sandy-haired Peter Blume is an old hand at big things-which sell for four-and five-figure sums. One of his first was South of Scranton, a surrealistically weird picture of sailors soaring through the air under a crow's nest, which took first prize at the 1934 Carnegie International and now resides in the basement of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. His next was the Museum of Modern Art's Eternal City-in which a bilious, jack-in-the-box Mussolini rules over a ruined square. "I hope," says Blume fervently, "that...
Operation Crow. In December-the last month for unrestricted immigration of war brides and war fiancées-migration became a flood. The U.S. organized a special airlift (incongruously named Operation Crow) to bring Europeans across the Atlantic. Chartered planes flew others across the Pacific...
...Federal Council, in its "Statement on Human Rights," went on record as opposing Jim Crow in any form-and called for equal, nonsegregated participation of all races in all phases of the "social and public life of the community," including housing, education, recreation, transportation and businesses serving the public "such as stores, theaters, hotels and restaurants...
...this country in 1911 after establishing a famous record as an oarsman in England. He started as a coach at the Union Boat Club in Boston, but transferred to Harvard in 1915, where he remained until accepting the position of head coach at MIT in 1923. His 1916 Crimson crow once set a four-mile record of 20 minutes and two seconds...
...some die-hards who will cat another kind of bird over Thanksgiving--for them the Democratic sweep is a small blessing indeed. Others will think it a large blessing, but only if the turkey is cheap; it may be that even staunch Democrats will be forced to cat crow eventually to save money. In any case, thanks are in order, now the election is over, that the initials G-O-P were not dynamited into the Sever Quadrangle...