Word: merino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Answers: saga, Sibelius, adjacent, Merino, Ezekiel, Monroe, humerus, quart, 2, 13, tare...
Adelaide grew up in Victorian London. Like most Victorian storybook heroines, she lived in a nice house, wore a merino dress and behaved like a skittish filly. It was Papa's idea that she should take drawing lessons. One afternoon her drawing master, Mr. Lambert, up and kissed her. What could Adelaide do? Mr. Lambert was poor and he drank; Papa declared that of course she couldn't marry him. She married him anyhow, and went to live in his dingy flat in an alley known as Britannia Mews. Thus it all began...
Last month the Duhalde Government, seeking to appease rightist sentiment, cracked down on a strike of Communist-led nitrate workers. Duhalde brought in tough, smooth Vice Admiral Vicente Merino Bielich, boss of the Navy, to serve as Minister of Interior and strong man. Trade unionists, dismayed at such developments, staged a general strike, demonstrated in the streets of Santiago, demanded a government of the left. But labor's solidarity now collapsed. Socialists, offered four portfolios, joined the new Government, denounced the Communists for brewing another general strike. That left the Popular Front in ruins, the Cabinet uneasily balanced with...
Outside the little town of Merino, Colo., Albert Stark rattled along with a truckload of fertilizer. Some 1,400 miles away, in San Francisco, the World Security conference was scarcely two hours old; Mutual's commentators were up to their ears in commentating, and the Blue was airing an ambitious Ben Hecht dramatization of "the little people's" hopes for the world's future...