Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican politicians in Massachusetts ever defy the cozy "escalator" system on which ambitious vote getters rise to the upper levels just by staying in line. But last week a young Harvard blueblood skipped the first steps, stormed the heights, carried if off with startling success, and thereby became the hottest Bay State political prospect in years...
...spacious, broiling, tented square behind his rambling mansion at Omdurman, on the upper reaches of the Nile, sharp-eyed parents, bright-eyed youths and soft-eyed maidens gathered last week for bargain day. From tent to tent the bridegrooms raced, making their selections. The price was a flat $8 per wife, rich or poor, pretty or plain, young or not, with El Mahdi footing the difference. Then Sir Sayed, tall in his flowing black galabia, appeared upon his pillared porch to intone the Koran's marriage service. Upwards of 300 glistening couples took the vows at Omdurman and blessed...
With three gallon cans of pineapple juice on hand, Phillips Brooks House held its annual Harvard-Radcliffe freshman tea Sunday afternoon. Several hundred men, both freshmen and upper-termers, were present but only a handful of Radcliffe girls risked the hot weather to come to the gathering...
...upper jaw of the Soviet crunch reached far behind Minsk and cut the railroad to Vilna; the lower jaw snapped the trunk line to Warsaw near Baranowicze. Minsk fell, trapping an estimated 150,000 more Germans. Swarms of Red bombers blasted the roads to Vilna and Koenigsberg, to Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk...
...under cover. The first open blow was struck last spring by John Maynard Keynes, First Baron Tilton, with a proposal that in effect would give the British dominance in world currency arrangements. The second was a counterproposal by Harry D. White for the U.S. Treasury, giving the U.S. the upper hand through its vast hoard of gold...