Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This site, the Hyde Park home of the man who had done much to make UNO possible, seamed the probable first choice. In London last week the UNO Interim Committee had narrowed down the possible sites to about 15, all within a radius of 85 miles of New York City or within 60 miles of Boston. Among them were Princeton, N.J., and such historic Massachusetts towns as Concord, Marblehead, Quincy, Dedham. Whatever the site, Congress will have to agree to surrender sovereignty over...
...before he could witness the victory he had charted and planned. Had he lived, 1945 would have been his year-the final flowering of American hope and strength which he had nurtured through black days made blacker by American indecision. But now he lay in a grave at Hyde Park, mourned by the world...
...notified that seven Canadians had been taken prisoner. He exploded: "They eat up our rations." Shortly afterwards, as Jesionek was washing himself nearby, he saw the seven Canadians led from a stable, then shot from behind by a black-helmeted SS corporal as they walked into the Abbey park...
...Littles lived near Manhattan's Central Park, where sailboat enthusiasts like to sail their miniature craft. In one of the headiest competitions since the America's Cup races, Stuart sailed the Wasp to victory...
...manhood being an employe of Atlas Portland Cement Co., a theosophist, a tailor's helper (in his father's shop), a mail sorter, a Western Union messenger, a speakeasy operator. In Paris, where he settled in 1930 "to study vice," he worked at panhandling and slept on park benches. He also wrote his best work, a swatch of unabashed autobiographical writings (Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn and others), and several volumes of second-rate philosophy with first-rate titles (What Are You Going to Do About Alf? ; Money and How It Gets that...