Word: processional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The final week of Dwight Eisenhower's triumphal procession through Europe was also the week of the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in Europe. By a fateful progression of events that spanned an era, the man who commanded the victorious Western armies, the man who...
The cops had to be called out in Turkey (TIME, Aug. 24), and the Salzburg concert was S.R.O. In Warsaw, where the orchestra was showered with flowers, Associate Manager Carlos Moseley reported: "The whole hall stood and cried 'bis' in some funny way that sounded like hundreds of...
A Sense of God. Mydans' mind is itself a kind of camera. He writes in pictures that illustrate life in swift, touching anecdotes and impressions: the wedding procession that moved along an Italian road on foot while up ahead, U.S. troops were in deadly battle with a German rearguard...
The terror began when one of the 100 elephants in the procession stepped on some live coals dropped by accident from a torch. Trumpeting with pain, the huge beast charged its keeper, who daringly managed to catch it. chain the injured animal to a lamppost. The crowd closed in, jeering...
Died. Claude Grahame-White, 79, popular barnstorming pilot of aviation's infancy, Britain's first qualified pilot, who demonstrated the multiple uses of the airplane: he was the first to carry mail by air (letters from London to King George V at Windsor), the first to try night...