Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck." . . . Even before Maine's catastrophic forest fires of 1947, Maine, with most other states, was trying to educate people and discourage them from throwing live ashes from automobiles or other moving vehicles. TIME, instead of condoning this criminal practice of flipping cigarette butts as an amusing sport, should . . . point out the dangers of such carelessness...
...worn, plump, pallid figures never looked posed; they were painted as Bishop had first sketched them, in the park or subway or on the street, licking ice-cream cones, reading newspapers, chatting on park benches. There was no glamour in Bishop's handling of them, and no heavy realism either. Her models might be too rumpled and dispirited for Vogue magazine, but they shared a dreamlike solemnity and detachment that is seldom found on the street...
...Lexington Avenue subway Bender rode up to 68th Street. He walked into a stone mansion at 680 Park Avenue. Some children, playing in the hall, shouted "Zdravstvuite," Russian for "Hello." The mansion was the Soviet U.N. delegation's headquarters. Bender presented Dr. Jes-sup's letter...
...Elevator. The next day newsmen and photographers packed the lobby of the office building at 2 Park Avenue. Jessup was already in his headquarters on the 23rd floor. Chauvel and Cadogan threaded their way through the crush and into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...
...Presented the annual $10,000 Collier's magazine awards for "distinguished congressional service" to Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. (Rayburn gave his prize money to his home town of Bonham, Tex. for a library; Vandenberg gave his to the Park Congregational Church of Grand Rapids, Mich, as a memorial to his mother...