Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene was Warsaw's renovated, horseshoe-shaped Parliament Hall. One by ore, the members walked to a wicker basket in front of the speaker's dais to vote in Poland's first postwar presidential election. Everyone knew that the winner would be Boleslaw Bierut, who for 24 months had been the Communist-stooge Provisional President...
...moon shone bright over Portland, Ore. and a young man named Thomas Kelly sat on a campus bench reading Shelley by the light of the moon. To the cops who saw him there, this seemed highly suspicious conduct. Kelly didn't think his conduct needed any defense or explanation and he couldn't produce a draft card. So they jugged him. Said one policeman: "See if you can take that, Lord Byron...
...title came out of an old burlesque theater drunk skit. Jack McVea, leader of a small West Coast Negro jazz band, had heard the skit years ago-and the phrase stuck. Last summer on a rainy day in Portland, Ore. he wrote a simple riff tune for it and later recorded it-leaving out the references to whiskey. Disc jockeys in Los Angeles started plugging it last month, and soon McVea's record had sold 300,000 copies, mostly on the West Coast. As soon as it caught on, McVea heard from the lawyers of John Mason...
Excess Profit. In Portland, Ore., City Commissioner Kenneth Cooper bemoaned the nickel bonus added to his $5,000 salary, complained that it boosted him into a higher income-tax bracket...
...Angeles police searched for the person who had killed black-haired Elizabeth Short, then defiled and butchered her body and dumped it in a vacant lot. Friends had nicknamed her the "Black Dahlia," which made the crime more piquant. Portland, Ore. was having a crime wave. Taxi drivers, tired of being robbed by patrons, carried guns. A woman was knocked on the head as she entered her automobile. Murders averaged one a week. Three youths were arrested for killing a sea captain and dumping his body over a cliff...