Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once hostile Gentile* world no longer howls for Mormon blood. This week a Mormon party of 143 men, three women and two children-the exact complement of Brigham Young's advance guard in the great trek of 1847-started west from Nauvoo, Ill. to commemorate that event. They anticipated nothing more dangerous than flat tires and Chamber of Commerce luncheons. Their shiny new Buick and Studebaker automobiles were disguised by plywood oxen and white canvas tops. To please the church's publicity department, they camped out every night...
...Communists got control of Europe. In that event, the U.S. would not have 30 years to prepare for the catastrophe. The 500 million non-Russian Europeans include thousands of scientists, millions of skilled workers, millions of trained soldiers. In a few years (say five), Russia plus Europe might be stronger than the U.S. The Communists could not then be stopped from grabbing Asia, and safety for the U.S. could not be bought at any price...
...Often he seems to be speaking to her rather than to the cross section of São Paulo that crowds around the table or to the thousands of Paulistas who hear his voice through loudspeakers in the dusty squares of distant villages. The broadcasts have become a weekly event for listeners-in southern Brazil...
...survey disclosed that some organizations have been making allowance for the Old Age Tax, while others have not. None were certain of their positions in the event of their exemption...
...Henley-on-Thames, the crew of Jesus College, Cambridge, won the big event-the Grand Challenge Cup-in which no U.S. crew was entered. Another race, for the Thames Challenge Cup, went to a U.S. schoolboy crew from Connecticut's Kent School. Kent's brawny crew (average weight: 174 Ibs.), which brought along its own supply of peanut butter and cooking fats, won easily by two lengths from Massachusetts' Tabor Academy...