Word: moor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is of the utmost importance in Pamplona, where bullfighting started (so the records say) 500 years ago, when two bulls were killed "by one Christian and one Moor...
...Government lobby, members chorused Scotland's Loch Lomond, Yorkshire's On Ilkley Moor and the Welsh Cwm Rhondda. But when jubilant Laborites swung their voices into Socialism's anthem, The Red Flag, Tory Sir Gifford Fox rose in angry protest. Laborites shouted, "It's May Day," and pointed to the clock; it had ticked past midnight. The Speaker announced that he had no jurisdiction over what the honorable members might sing in the lobbies...
...race-troubled Detroit last week, at the Church of St. Benedict the Moor, Solemn High Mass was celebrated by a tall, handsome Negro whose brown face and hands contrasted dramatically with the shining white of his alb. The Rev. Dom Basil Matthews, O.S.B., reputedly the first of his race to be ordained a Benedictine priest, had been invited by the Roman Catholic diocese to further its drive for interracial amity...
...Beware the Chasm!" One day, shortly after her seduction, Honor went horseback riding with Sir Richard. "Beware the chasm!" he cried, as they charged across a wild moor. It was too late. Honor plummeted into the "yawning crevice" and was totally wrecked below the waist. So Richard married a rich widow...
...state has long tried to buy the tired-out battleship Texas, which it wants to moor in the San Jacinto River as a battle memorial. But negotiations have been held up for lack of money for a mooring. Half seriously, last week, the Lone Stars were suggesting that every Texan in service be fined $1 for bragging about Texas. Thus, they figured offhand, a million dollars could be raised...