Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fratelli Bandieri, a narrow, cobblestoned street swarming with seminaked children. She had first told her story to Correspondent William Rospigliosi of our bureau last spring. When I arrived, she had just received two letters from TIME readers. One, from Mrs. Betty Jane Davidson, of Bluefield, West Virginia, said that a food package was on its way and asked for shoe and clothing sizes for everybody in the family. The other, from Bernice Sherman, of Bolton Landing, N.Y., also asked for clothing measurements...
British voters in West Leeds, Yorkshire, have lost a lot of faith in the Labor Party; but a majority are still doubtful whether the Tories offer anything better. In a by-election last week, Labor won the parliamentary seat by a margin greatly reduced from the 1945 general election vote. It was Labor's 51st by-election victory since 1945. Labor defeats: none...
Slaughter (three out of six) and Pitcher Howie Pollet (who muffled the Dodger bats): Cards 14, Dodgers 1. In the fourth game, the Dodgers recovered their aplomb sufficiently to tie the Cards, 4-4, in a contest cut short to let both teams catch trains for the West. League leaders (by half a game): the St. Louis Cardinals...
...Quaker plan urged that the U.S. show its good intentions by 1) promoting East-West trade and ending "economic warfare," 2) working for a unified "neutral" Germany, and 3) proposing an agreement to put all atomic bomb stockpiles under United Nations seal. If carried out, this plan "would increase the likelihood of the Soviet Union's making the desired changes on its side...
...Runyon's youthful, pre-formula days. One of them, a hobo story called "The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew," is a report of a murder told in a bantering tone reminiscent of Ring Lardner. Others are gentle spoofs on his old home town in the West, sketches of Army life in the Spanish-American War, or idyllic reminiscences of childhood...