Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia, the housemaid shortage was slightly bettered when a pioneer contingent of eight wide-eyed Puerto Rican women flew in, promptly scattered to local homes where they were guaranteed at least a year's employment. Their sponsor: Philadelphia Employment Agent Edgar Rolle, who spotted the remote womanpower pool, arranged with the Puerto Rican Government to fly the domestics...
...Breschi: "If all owners had poured back the profits in their company like Ford, there would be no need for nationalization." Socialist Leader Giuseppe Saragat warned, through his paper: "Ford loved birds, and built for them an immense natural park-foreign birds wanted none of his artificial freedoms, and flew...
...woman, who had been weaving through the crowd from sidewalk to curb in a futile effort to keep her ill-shod feet dry, suddenly sighted the twelve men. She stopped in her tracks, stared wide-eyed at them for a full minute. Then she dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough coats and mumbling hysterically: "Wohin?" ". . . weiss...
...charged that Lombardo Toledano was a "foreigner sticking his nose in internal affairs." In Congress, Auténtico deputies asked for the Mexican's ouster from the country. After Cuba's Minister of the Interior canceled the convention in the interests of public safety, Lombardo Toledano quietly flew away...
Frankie was charged with battery and freed on $500 bail. He would be tried by a jury May 27. He flew off to Manhattan, where the Council Against Intolerance in America gave him a prize for other efforts. Manhattan's left-winging tabloid PM, on Frankie's side, dignified the brawl with a 1,000-word editorial. (He "must have warmed the hearts of millions," said PM-but conceded that this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups...