Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From this tunnel, while the bands played, the crowd cheered, cowbells rattled in the upper tiers, the Deweys appeared, in a cream-colored touring car, flanked by eight motorcycle cops. Said the script: "After Governor Dewey enters, Von Zell brings many stars to the microphone to describe the scene during the time the cars are driving around the track. After one minute of cheering, dial the mikes down so that the continued cheering becomes a background for the stars speaking...
...equatorial Atlantic between the Cape Verde Islands and the West Indies, waves of heated air molecules begin to rise from the warm sea. As cooler molecules rush in from the sides to take their place, and the rising air, saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record, with a hollow core, the vortex or "eye" of the storm, through which the sun may shine...
...Russian explosion in June and July had driven the last German from Russian soil, ended the Battle of Russia, whittled down the German armies in the east. It had pushed the German remnants back to the upper Vistula, to a line in front of Warsaw and East Prussia before giving them a chance to regain their balance. Now this line, which the Germans bragged they had stabilized, was regarded by the Reds as the starting line for their autumn offensive in the Battle of Germany. They were bringing up new, massive equipment with which they intended...
...threat was triple: Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper Vistula pointed at Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace...
...intra-club debate in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night, the Harvard Debate Council discussed the question "Resolved: that the United States Government should retain postwar ownership and operation of the defense industries under its control." The decision was awarded to the affirmative...