Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, Feb. 9--The Federal government ordered Monday limited bad weather landings by the nek Electra jet-prop airliners. The safety restriction--expected to be only temporary--followed last week's East River crash that cost 65 lives...
Referring to the bid by the University to pay $1 million over the market value to buy the MTA lots on the Charles River, McNamara stated, "Cambridge is entitled to first priority on land like that, on which city loses a lot of taxes." The mayor said that the city would "make every effort" to buy the MTA land, if the Transit Authority chose to sell...
...pared sticks (the kind that restaurants send out to stir coffee) as pens, he usually gets his drawing right the first try. But he has rewritten captions as many as 15 times, often working on the subway while riding from his bachelor apartment in Brooklyn Heights under the East River to Manhattan...
...invading army is the main theme, announced by a menacing rush of pennants out of the mist. The peasant at the bridge is a contrasting grace note of peace. High above him the army has found a pass into southern lands, and now, serpentlike, it descends to the river. For a time its triumphal progress fades behind the soft, pine-muffled bulk of an island; then it reappears behind another island whose barren rocks are as abrupt as a cymbal crash. The picture opens out, like a swelling andante, into the expanse of the lake, the welcoming bridge. Above, square...
Another yarn, Call of the Sea, tells of a banquet and ball given by the nautical-minded British ambassador on a log raft in Belgrade's Sava River. It is a superb affair until the raft slips its moorings and makes a break for the Danube. Passing under Belgrade castle, the soused "Flower of European Diplomacy" is spotted by Comrade-Gunner Popovic, who takes the diplomats for hostile Czech paratroopers. Hoping to distinguish himself, possibly even to win his country's "Order of Mercy and Plenty with Crossed Haystacks," Popovic puts a safety match to the castle cannon...