Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, although not usually inclined to be sympathetic with the frailties of man or hippopotamus, have come to share this insight of Poet T. S. Eliot. As a result, the world last week was the richer by one of the rare instances of East-West cooperation in years, and may soon be richer by one baby hippopotamus...
...Discreet East-West negotiations were begun. The Russian zone authorities found it in their hearts to let Crete go to Berlin. For 383 hours, Knautschke and Crete were kept in adjoining cages, permitted only to engage in some sedate nose-rubbing. Then they were allowed to meet at closer quarters. When Crete goes back to Leipzig, the Russian zone will get her baby, but another Leipzig female may be coming up for Knautschke...
...observers watch the rocket with telescopes. One station notes the east-west component in the rocket's course; the other the north-south component. Set up in front of each telescope is a "sky screen" with curved lines on it. If the rocket crosses one of these lines, it is likely to fly out of bounds...
...father, Alfred Chapin Clapp, was an insurance broker of East Orange, N.J., He was a kindly man with a small goatee and a frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...
...East Orange High School during the '208, Margaret fought the Scopes trial with her friends (she was on Clarence Darrow's side, in favor of teaching evolution) and secretly read The Sheik. By the time she got to Wellesley, she was writing poetry, soon turned to majoring in economics and talking "in great lofty generalizations and big huge principles ..." She went through Wellesley on scholarship, played basketball on the varsity, and in her senior year was elected head of College Government. "I was serious ... very serious . . . hardly the lighthearted young thing...