Word: surginger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 50,000 people ("a milling, surging, disorderly crowd," sniffed the surprised Boston Herald) broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71¼ tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner. When it paused at Hartford, 30,000 gawking sightseers eddied...
PRINCETON, N. J., March 9--Princeton's surging basketball team used Harvard as a ladder tonight to climb into a first place tie in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, as it drubbed a sloppy Crimson quintet, 63 to 46.
Communist prestige was at low ebb in Western Germany. Yet in Düsseldorf last week a grinning, pinch-faced Stalinist with silver-grey hair was carried like a hero on the shoulders of a cheering, surging mob. He was Max Reimann, Communist boss of Western Germany.
Under a white flag of truce, city fathers made their way 16 miles southeast for an interview with Communist General Lin Piao, who refused either to see or talk to them. Red guns resumed their shelling and Communist troops stormed across a dike surrounding the city to capture the North...
The cold, muddy waters of Shanghai's Soochow Creek teemed with thousands of Chinese junks and smaller sampans. Terrified refugees were preparing once more to flee before the surging tide of Communism. Nevertheless, the great majority of Chinese were becoming more reconciled to the prospects of Communist rule. The...