Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odds the high spot came after Satchmo (who has Baptist leanings and wears a Star of David medallion around his neck) said that he had always wanted to meet the Pope. It was arranged; Satchmo and his wife Lucille were granted a special audience. Said Armstrong, before leaving for northern Italy, France and the U.S.: "The people everywhere has been wonderful." How did his reception in Europe this year compare with 14 years ago? "I didn't have my thermometer," beamed Satchmo, "but they was both a bitch...
...Eliot Bridge will serve as a crucial and long-needed link between the communities south of the Charles and the Concord Turnpike, between the northern and southern halves of the western section of the metropolitan district. If you have trouble getting across the Anderson Bridge to the Stadium this afternoon, remember the ageless war cry: "Wait till next year...
Aside from this, Princeton has always admitted a high number of Southern students--Nassau is often called the "most northern of southern colleges." Many of the negroes in Princeton town are descendants of slaves that 19th-century students brought to college with them. But the Southern influence isn't as strong as it used to be--even though more Princetonians straw-voted for Thurmond in the last election than for Truman...
...Muscle. But nothing was giving. Five weeks of strike-shrouded, ill-tempered negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal operators had only increased their distaste for each other. The northern and western operators walked out of the bargaining room in disgust last week, virtually inviting the U.S. Government to step in. Lewis apparently still hoped to stall the negotiations somehow until Phil Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers settled their strike with the steel industry...
...afternoon of Aug. 10, 1945, Osamu Satano's superior officers took him to an open field near the Fukuoka crematory in northern Kyushu. There Satano had to "volunteer" to behead a captured U.S. B-29 airman. After he had swung the executioner's sword, Satano watched one of his officers torture another prisoner to death by shooting arrows...