Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After weekends, when the population is back to normal, Wellesley is as busy as an A. & P. "Don't panic," the girls tell each other as pre-exam work piles up. But some girls do panic, and a few secretly resort to "bennies" (benzedrine). Otherwise, they worry about their figures, and then at the Well, the campus soda fountain, they gorge themselves on Wellesley Specials (a brownie smothered in ice cream and hot fudge sauce). They play bebop records by the hour, but know more about Bach than any Wellesley generation before them. They are coldly practical about some...
...Resort hotels were booked solid by a younger generation to whom Rosh Hashana seemed little more than a two-day vacation. But in some Orthodox homes men received fish heads to symbolize their position as heads of families and honey was spread on bread to symbolize the coming of a sweet and fruitful year. Only in Jerusalem was there mourning-among the pious who could not hold their traditional services at the ancient Wailing Wall in the Arab-held Old City...
Gleaming limousines last week drove up to a former concert hall in the Rhine resort of Bad Godesberg, a few minutes away from the new German capital at Bonn. Diplomats of 33 nations and the leading officials of Western Germany had come to pay their respects to Theodor Heuss (rhymes with Boyce), a spry old man with friendly blue eyes, who had just been elected to the highest office in Germany. He was the first President of the new Federal Republic (and the first President since Paul von Hindenburg...
...Matter of Health. The two statesmen did not feel as chipper as they looked. For one thing, their personal health was not good. Just back from a Swiss resort where he had been treated for a digestive ailment, Cripps took austere vegetarian meals at a small table in the ship's dining room. As a fellow sufferer under doctor's orders, Bevin dieted in his cabin-nothing but boiled fish, poultry, milk puddings, custards. Between meals they wrestled together with the bigger problem of Britain's economic health...
...Soviet government," concluded the note, "considers it necessary to declare that it will not rest content with such a situation and will be forced to resort to other more effective measures...to call to order the unbridled fascist rapists...