Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York reacted to history's worst water crisis much as it had reacted to the news that German planes might blow it up: nobody really believed it, but everybody did his best to see that somebody else did something about it. Even Communist officials urged their members to save water. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, and radio announcers ceaselessly proclaimed the emergency. Station WOR distinguished itself in particular with a doggerel sung to the tune of Turkey in the Straw...
...hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...people of Red-encircled West Berlin should be helped out of their present economic plight, brought into the closest possible relations with West Germany. ¶The West Germans must not be allowed to wiggle out of Allied security safeguards, e.g., they will not be allowed to have even commercial airplanes, or to form cartels...
...Even as a boy in Mexico, José had been an unworldly sort. But his golden voice and romantic profile soon had him performing at the Chicago Civic Opera, most notably as Nicias in Thais. He went into the movies, made a succession of highly successful musical films in Hollywood, Mexico City and Buenos Aires...
...Times-Herald, many another U.S. newspaper was also in print with even scarier stories, but with no more attention to a reporter's basic tenet of checking on the reliability of sources. Many papers, notably the Hopkins-hating Hearst press, bayed off in such excitement last week that they hardly bothered even to qualify their headlines. Cried the San Francisco Examiner: ATOM GIFT TO RUSS TOLD. The Columbus, Ohio Evening Dispatch blared...