Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blocks. Lima's police fought to keep the crowds in hand. Then out through the studded doors of the Church of the Nazarenas and down the narrow street surged a procession of purple-clad penitents, with a great silver litter supported by straining men in the van. The 200th observance of Peru's most popular religious festival, the fiesta of Our Lord of Miracles, had begun...
...Van Doren Spoke Against...
Largely under the leadership of the Wellesley Student Federalists, the Inter-student Council last spring sponsored a meeting in Sanders Theater at which Mark Van Doren spoke out strongly against the United Nations as presently instituted and called for world government and an end of national forces...
Brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas, this weak-willed, fear-ridden, drunkard of a district attorney is the only man outside of Van Heflin who knows about Barbara Stanwyck's murderous past. He also is married to her. But she loves Heflin, and when he comes back after eighteen years that starts trouble. But Lizabeth Scott loves Heflin too. But Heflin can't decide between Miss Scott and Miss Stanwyck...
There had been 39 people in the airplane-eight crew members, 13 man, twelve women, three newborn babies, three older children. The passengers had come from all over the.U.S. Mrs. Harriet Van Houten, 21, and her 6-month-old daughter Janet had lived in Yonkers, N.Y. Twenty-six-year-old Mrs. Helen Kent Downing and her two children, 20-month-old Barbara and four-year-old Laurie Elizabeth, were from Thomson, Ga. Mrs. Ruth Landsdowne Schmidt, 36, and her eleven-year-old boy Frank, were from Kenosha, Wis. Like all the mothers and most of the other women, they were...