Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save himself time & trouble, Houston Oilman W. W. West took to parking his car in the bus zone in front of his office, forced bus passengers to alight in the street, cheerfully paid a daily $5 parking fine. Total to date...
...this might look like a hinted threat by Tito to turn to the West. The West, however, kept its fingers crossed. The latest issue of the Cominform journal, for the first time since the Tito fission in June, had no article attacking Tito...
Philosopher Bertram Russell, 76, who reluctantly renounced pacifism in 1941, reluctantly warned a London conference of students and teachers that the West must either fight Russia before she has the atom bomb, or "lie down and say 'Come and govern us, have concentration camps, do as you like.' " It would be a sad decision, he admitted, because "there are only two independent states in the world today-Britain is not one of them. After an atomic war only one would be left...
...West reminisced about her ten months in Britain, where she revived her 20-year-old Diamond Lil: "I was quite a social success, as well as with my show. I met the King and Queen. I guess I met everybody there was to meet. I even had a lot of the Oxford boys after me." The boys were "quite exciting" and "I had twelve proposals." Mae concluded that her own attractions are universally appreciated: "I have the masses, I have the classes, I have all types of people...
...weekend world that its authors discuss is bounded on the north by Hanover, N.H., on the west by Ithaca, N.Y. and on the south by Annapolis, Md. And even in this narrow province there are local differences. Harvard men, say the Dartmouth authors, try to act indifferent; a Williams man "always manages to look as though he has just been out for a stroll to see how the new colt is faring...