Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Come On, Boys." The Red push started at Kemi, a lumber town 50 miles from the Arctic Circle. Kemi's lumberjacks had been on strike for higher wages all summer; last week, Finland's Social Democratic government ordered the men back to work, sent police to Kemi to help enforce order. To the Communist bosses, that situation seemed ready-made for their purposes. To launch their offensive with a bang, the Red bosses decided to start a riot at Kemi...
Last March, when the John Biscoe was turned back by "impenetrable ice packs," the men resigned themselves to more work. To ease the strain, the British Broadcasting Corp. beamed special news and entertainment programs their way. The best news came from Sir Miles, who radioed that when the polar summer came in December, the John Biscoe would make another attempt to break through; if it failed, the expedition could expect a pickup by plane...
...replenish the College. When the cardinals and papal courtiers had decided that the time was at hand, a messenger was sent to ask His Holiness the customary question: "Beatissime pater, eras erit consistorium?" (Most blessed father, will there be a consistory tomorrow?) But the Pope, who had built his summer villa in the cool valley that is still called "the vineyard of Pope Julius," answered: "Cras erit vinea" (Tomorrow it will _be the vineyard). Pope Julius stayed in his vineyard, and the consistory was not held until December...
...epileptic and a problem child who refuses to believe anything his tutors tell him about basic trends or the continuity of Western culture, Jimmy wears his mother down until she opens the nursery door, lets him go along with Divver on a trip to the Polish Corridor in the summer...
...summer wears away; the Polish Corridor becomes the hottest spot in Europe. A frantic cable comes from Jimmy's mother. An old terror returns to him: he may have another epileptic seizure any day. But before he does, the Forces of history converge on Mell and kill Max Divver, their disillusioned celebrant, as he is making a last confused and furious effort to acquire personal dignity...