Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silence on the Grass. First act of the rally was a tribute to the men who had died in the mines the past year. The miners and their wives stood silent as massed bands blared the solemn melody of Gres-jord, which commemorates the great Gres-ford Colliery disaster of 1934 which killed 265 men. Then Sam Watson, chairman of the national Labor Party and of the Durham Miners, said simply: "You'd be more comfortable if you all sat down now." It was a homey assembly, like an outsize church social. The miners sat on the grass, handkerchiefs...
...soon as possible." He warned that if Socialism causes Britain's economic collapse, "we shall carry many other nations with us into chaos and Communism." He refurbished a famous Churchill-ism for use against the Laborites: "Never before in the history of human government has such great havoc been wrought by such small...
...first inning of the first game, Brooklyn Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe tempted Outfielder Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...
...Baptist. [Times Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger told the Pope that . . . there was not a chance I would be in the White House after Jan. 20." When the election was over, the President added, the Pope asked Myron C. Taylor, presidential representative at the Vatican, how the head of a great newspaper could waste a half hour "in so misrepresenting the facts...
...lordship, Stoke is "an exciting experiment"-the end of his lifelong dream to give a university education to all the John Elkins of Britain. "Some have told me," says he, "that ... I am proposing to put a lever under a rock which has stood in one place for a great many years. Well, then, at my age, I cannot afford to wait too long...