Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, while the party rested in the walled town of Chioshan, Communists attacked it. Nationalist defenders placed their ammunition dump next to the missionaries' quarters. When shells began to fall, the missionaries took cover in the basement, and prayed again. Nationalist reinforcements arrived, and the Communists withdrew...
Lobster. Last week, the royal scene was, as usual, pure pastel. Gustaf now spends most of his time at Drottningholm Castle, which stands on an island in a lake near Stockholm (his town palace has too many stairs, only one elevator). From his study window he can see his subjects walking beneath the huge trees in the garden or near the pond where, in the summer, they feed Gustaf's swans. He likes to surround himself with women & children, lunches in the company of elderly ladies in waiting. His favorite dish is still lobster in brandy sauce...
Within the borders of Greece, nothing happened last week so important to the country's future as what went on in the minds of men in Moscow, Belgrade and Washington (see INTERNATIONAL). There was war in Greece; but at the suddenly historic town of Konitsa the fighting had subsided. TIME Correspondent Mary Barber pushed into the town, sent her cable in short "takes...
Riding up in a truck's cab was black-robed, white-bearded Bishop Evlogios of Koritza-a town in Albania which the Greeks maintain ought to be theirs. The bishop agrees. Again & again the column halted to let the bishop scramble out and bless passing soldiers...
After signing up all but two out-of-town members of the 1947 Jayvee squad on a petition supporting Boston, leaders of the informal campaign last night started a new set of petitions moving through the general student body. In an hour and a half Frank Powell '46 had signed up 150 supporters. "We plan to circulate the petitions through the Houses and the Yard all this week," said Powell, a Jayvee guard last fall, "with a goal of a couple of thousand signatures...