Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pope Pius XII was up & around after a spell of bronchitis...
...month on her parents, and sailed off with his new bride to the U.S. "Friends of the family," reported the New York Times later, "said that [George's father] disapproved the union." Whatever the reason, the newlyweds cut short their visit to Newport, and after a brief spell in New York, divided their lives between Yokohama and Europe's capitals. Twelve years later, in 1915, George Morgan dropped dead in Seville, leaving his widow an estimated...
...Black Briefcase. Many workers really needed wage increases to cope with inflation. The non-Communists among them were willing to give the new government a breathing spell before tackling the wage-price situation. The Communist leaders, however, wanted to use unrest over living costs to spike the Marshall Plan and put pressure on the London conference of Foreign Ministers. When Schuman offered a cost-of-living bonus if they would call off the strike, the Cocos refused...
Italy's embattled Premier Alcide de Gasperi retired to bed for a spell with arthritis...
Thomas Haller Cooper was a different kind of grotesque. His father was an English photographer; his mother was German. Somehow his mother had instilled in him a love for Germany. "It cannot be put down in black and white how she wove the spell about him. . . . The secret does not lie in the promise of conquest. That secret is a lyricism that extends the kingdom of the nightingale, diffuses everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban...