Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aesthetic. In the earlier years of its existence, the Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions of romance-bent musicians would start from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, and comb the land from Brattle Street and Brookline to Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill...
...dried, the speeches were dull, and most of the delegates looked as though they were thinking about lunch. M. Jacques Dumaine, the French government's elegant chief of protocol, stole the show. Bowing from the hips, gracefully waving his hands and toying with a monocle (made of plain glass), he ran off the signing in 25 minutes...
...north, on the edge of the Plain of Megiddo (Armageddon), Fawzi Bey Ka-wukji's Arab Army of Liberation had attacked the Jewish settlement of Mishmar Haemek. The Jewish Haganah, hoping to smash the Arab army, had thrown about 2,000 men into the battle. Kawukji sent an anxious appeal to the Arab League Political Committee, meeting in Cairo. Ka-wukji's army, it turned out, had suffered less than 100 casualties. But the Jews had driven the Arabs back, seized nearby Arab villages, firmly blocked the road into Arab Haifa from the southeast. Some Jews disguised...
...Until that day comes-if it does-they can continue battling to show the Russians that their Nervenkrieg has been far from an unqualified success-and to remind the Western powers that they are defending in Berlin something more than just 150,000 acres of this debris-laden Brandenburg plain. Is there anything else they...
...uneasy peace, punctuated by occasional snipers' bullets, returned last week to battered Bogota. The Colombian Federation of Labor lifted its general strike. Trains ran again, bringing food into the city. Gangs of workers shoveled rubble in every street. While some plain citizens dug among the ruins for their belongings, others searched the cemeteries to find their dead. In the upheaval touched off by the assassination of Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, at least 500 had been killed, 2,000 injured...