Word: surginger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The news of Truman's slump sent a fresh wave of confidence surging through Republican ranks. It plunged Democrats into corresponding gloom. It also raised many questions sure to be asked often between now and November. How accurate are the polls ? Is their sampling really scientific? Can the result...
The crowds kept surging through Prague. They were dazed. The loudspeaker system installed by the Germans blared martial airs and Communist communiqués from every streetcorner. A snatch of music or a few glibly triumphant phrases would suddenly hit people as reminders of the thing that had just happened...
Fabulous Failure. In 1914 Pyke, a Cambridge graduate, walked into the London Daily Chronicle and asked for a job. German armies were then surging through Belgium and the editor wryly agreed to hire Pyke if he could get a report from inside Germany. Seriously and logically Pyke set about journeying...
Harsh & Helpless. When Britten finally got the surging dissonances and powerful choruses of Peter Grimes on paper, England had its biggest homegrown musical event since the Edwardian era triumphs of Sir Edward Elgar. The London Times pronounced Peter Grimes "a great opera ... its success is deserved and inevitable."
In front of the bier marched Gandhi's third and fourth sons, Ramdas and Devadas,* barefoot. It took almost five hours for the marchers to cover the six miles to the banks of the sacred river, Jumna. The surging crowd, which sometimes threatened to engulf the funeral procession, threw...