Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Names on a Rock. Trieste was the other big unsettled issue of the Italian treaty. From Trieste came a story: when the Yugoslav Partisans seized the city they wrote "Tito" across the word "Duce," lettered on a rock overlooking Trieste harbor. After the Yugoslavs withdrew, someone had rubbed out the "Tito," failed to rub out the "Duce...
Summer had faded into the season which Western Indians called The-Moon-When -Deer -Rub -Their -Horns; September's hot days and moonless nights held the first, smoky promise of fall. Across the continent the people of the U.S. looked at a land at peace after the years...
...Saturday so that all who have bought a ticket can see them. Sales of the tickets so far indicate that the elite of the junior class and probably of the professional staff will be there, so all class members are advised to take advantage of this opportunity to rub elbows. If appeals to class spirit, etc, are of avail, one last appeal can be made attendance as a reward to the anonymity author of those official "notices" show the dance. It is rumored that after the publicity given him in Tuesday's notice Lt. Lindsay has been searching...
...Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working on the side of the anti-romancers was 1) Stoky's shingles, 2) the weather (which did Stoky's neuritis no good), 3) the carbolated vaseline (to rub on his chest...
Brot, Arbeit, Familie. The most uncooperative among the Germans (the Army hopefully believes) have been segregated in one camp in Oklahoma, where they try to strut past U.S. officers without saluting, rub the stenciled Ps and Ws off their clothes and get away generally with whatever they...