Word: urn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constitution of the Polish People's [Communist] Republic. There was no fuss, no muss, and no opposition. Voters were handed pink cards containing the names of but one ticket, led by Communist President Boleslaw Bierut. Then they were told to fold and drop the card into an urn. An area was screened off where voters, if they wished, could go to cross off any names on the card. Few did, in the face of a warning: "Those who deliberately impair the unity of the nation are enemies...
Triangle. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Marie Van Zelm, suing for divorce, complained that her husband: 1) hung his late first wife's clothes in their bedroom closet, 2) kept an urn of her ashes in the living room, 3) framed her pressed funeral flowers on the wall, 4) always bought two Christmas trees and explained, "One is for us [meaning the first wife], the other...
...easy, familiar stride. From the spectators came a delighted roar of applause for one of the most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
Jane sings One for My Baby in a gold gown, You Kill Me in a white, off-the-shoulder number, and clinches with Mitch-urn on a sampan, a yacht and a bed. Mitchum rescues Jane from an overly amorous admirer, stalks danger along the waterfront and over rooftops, avenges Bendix' death and bares his torso to the camera. During all this activity, Jane rolls her eyes at intervals and effectively registers two moods: petulance and boredom. Meanwhile, Mitchum maintains his sleepy-eyed deadpan...
...school taught 11,000 Air Corps cadets how to fly. But at war's end, Ryan, like other planemakers, went into a dive. He slashed his work force from 8,500 to 850; to keep them busy, he started making a streamlined casket which he called the "Grecian Urn." It just about buried Ryan; in 1947 the company lost...