Word: melone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, a converted C-47 of the small, G.I.-owned Burke Air Lines took off from Newark with 31 Puerto Rican passengers. Just before dawn, over the swampy flatlands near Melbourne, Fla., first one, then the second engine failed. The plane smashed through swamp pine, broke open like a melon on the soggy ground. Twenty-one were dead. Fifteen had somehow survived...
...regarded by collectors as their Patron Saint and the Great Hall at Grosvenor House as their temple." The Queen Mother was sponsoring Britain's first Antique Dealers' Fair since 1938. And Queen Elizabeth had sent along four fine old tureens-in the form of a cabbage, a melon, a lemon, and a bunch of asparagus-to crown the show...
Abandoning all host-like cordiality, a 16-man Varsity track contingent carve itself a sizeable portion of the Harvard Invitational Weight and Field melon last Saturday afternoon at Briggs Cage. A crowd of about 200 watched the Crimson score in all five events...
...sickness called trachoma, which looked as though their eyelids had been smeared with sausage meat." The winding alleys-Street of the Union, Street of the Clock-were lit at night, white and black, by the polished moon of Castile and by gas jets, weak flames shaped like slices of melon. In summer he saw the savage boredom of village life in Brunete on the baked plain, where young men crucified bats whose wings tore as easily as old rags. He saw a starved boy in the ragged tinsel of a matador waiting, with the face of a mystic...
...Father of the Navy." He arrived from Washington early in the morning. Democrat bigwigs had to hustle to meet him for an 8 o'clock breakfast on the train. The breakfast was good: orange juice and Persian melon, eggs & bacon, toast and coffee. The talk was good: Harry Truman was assured by the politicians that Democrat Bill O'Dwyer would win the New York mayoralty in a landslide...