Word: spire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poonsters have turned a deaf ear to pleas that the Ibis be allowed to grace a spire on the University of Moscow. Several hundred Radcliffe and College students yesterday signed petitions demanding that the bird remain with the Russians, "to whom it now belongs by right of courtesy...
...Russians were extremely nice about the whole thing. It seemed to us they were going out of their way to implement their new peace offensive. We expect to get pictures from them of the Ibis' new resting place on a University of Moscow spire almost any day now," they said...
Across the Channel, from the Orkneys south to Dover, the low-lying British coast lay beaten and flooded. Here & there a lonely church spire rose above scenes of desolation. Dozens of bodies and thousands of head of livestock floated dead on the floodwaters. Norfolk, the hardest hit, was first to report high casualties-17 bodies found floating on the flood waters at Felixstowe, scores of other deaths-including at least nine U.S. servicemen and their kin from the East Anglian bomber base in Hunstanton. On the west of Britain, the storm took 128 in one blow when it swamped...
...Herbert J. Spire, teaching fellow in Government, said last night to charges that he had turned in his students' postcards to the Post Office for a refund...
Sections met again, and still no postcards appeared. Rumors that Spire had taken the unused cards back to the U.S. Government began to circulate among his dubious public...