Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators who voted down Vice-President Barkley's anti-filibuster ruling on Friday, exactly half were Republicans. Most of the GOP bloc was from the conservative Mid-West, led by Arthur Vandenberg. The issue, as Vandenberg put it, was not civil rights. The Republicans indeed clasped these rights to their bosoms many years ago. Vandenberg disagreed with Barkley on principle; he just felt that the Parliamentary rule in question did not apply to debate on a motion to introduce a measure. To pretend that it did, Vandenberg said, would be tainting the worthy end of civil rights by using unwholesome...
...Marino is the world's oldest (1,648 years), smallest (38 sq. mi.) and least populous (12,000) republic. For the past four years it has also been the only Communist-dominated state west of the Iron Curtain. Surrounded by Italy, San Marino's fortress, La Rocca, overlooking the Adriatic, towers above the grey stone face of Mount Titano (145 miles north of Rome). By modern standards, La Rocca's massive, crumbling grey walls are not much of a bastion, but last week San Marino's Communists held the fort...
Bloom, now a slender 36, began studying painting at a community center in West End Boston. Since then he has kept at his art steadily, selling no paintings at first, indifferent to poverty. In 1942, he was jarred from an oilstove and breadcrumb existence by painting Curator Dorothy Miller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. She hung 13 of his paintings in a show of American artists, and the museum bought two of them for its permanent collection...
Great Blizzard. The cold in the west was not the bright, dry cold that westerners pretend to enjoy so much. It snowed & snowed & snowed. Bitter cold and roaring wind turned the snowstorms into blizzards. The great blizzard of early January was the worst that ever hit the high-plains states. In South Dakota the Black Hills region got 50 inches of snow; Deadwood got 77 inches. Total snowfall for January in western Nebraska averaged 70 inches...
...drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel and go west...