Word: east
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-loved figure of Christ, securely fixed in the immemorial Stabat Mater tradition of the West, will never take that road; but is likely to assume increasing prominence, while the outrageous child continues to rampage in the East with stolen hammer & sickle...
After today's tussle with the Eagles, the varsity will meet one of the East's stronger squads, Amherst, tomorrow on the Lord Jeff's home courts...
Students interested in serious study of the Far East are not advised to concentrate in Far Eastern Languages by that Department. The Department believes that a general knowledge in a person's own civilization is a prerequisite for study of another civilization...
...writer from the Russian zone has been smuggling out his replies through friends crossing the border in Herlin, although so far he has received American letters uncensored. He is a student who tutors grade-school science during off-hours in his small East Baltic town; he says any belief that the German people are capable of governing themselves is a "joke." The student, who refuses to allow his name to be published because of possible punishment by Russian occupation authorities, cites the Welmar Republic, under which "the German country, with her 65,000,000 inhabitants, was not able to find...
...plus, Winston got 74 brooches, necklaces, bracelets, and two world-famed diamonds, the robin's-egg-sized Hope diamond* (44½ carats) and the Star of the East (100 carats). Though Winston laughed at the legend that the Hope diamond had brought only trouble or tragedy to its owners and wearers, he soon had his pressagents grinding out new embellishments of the tale (samples: "Marie Antoinette, who wore it, was beheaded . . . Solomon Habib, Oriental diamond merchant who handled the gem, has been ill for 40 years"). Winston planned to send the collection on a nationwide tour of museums...