Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of the excitement was the delegation from Russia and the Iron Curtain countries of Europe. Their boss and director was ruddy, narrow-eyed Alexander Fadeev, political boss of Soviet writers, who is reputed to be an MVD official assigned to the part of an intellectual in search of peace. Their showpiece-and the only visitor of major stature-was Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech...
...work in a Viennese shirt factory, where she precariously waited out the war. In July 1947, she was brought to the U.S. by the United Service for New Americans. She found work in a bank, lived in a lonely furnished room in Brooklyn, knocked on many doors in search of Anna Sobel...
...hours later in United Service's offices on Lower Broadway, the Remlers and Ava Miller met at last. After the first flush of excitement, they sat down to exchange notes on the search. Then they found that until a month ago, Ava had lived less than 300 feet away from Anna Sobel Remler's Brooklyn home...
...Waksman's slow, unspectacular search for new antibiotics still goes on. In the past ten years he and his associates at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University, New Brunswick have examined more than 100,000 cultures of organisms found in the soil of nearby farms...
Chicago Tribune reporter Eugene Griffin has resumed his search for alleged Communist influences at Harvard in a new series of articles which began this week...