Word: whitsun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one Saturday last May, a thin, grim line started forming outside the Royal Opera House at London's Covent Garden. All through the long Whitsun weekend it sweltered and swelled, until, the following Tuesday, tickets went on sale for the first London performance of Cherubini's Medea in 89 years. Within three hours every seat in the house was sold out. Last week the lucky ticket holders finally got a look at what they had battled so tenaciously to see: Maria Meneghini Callas in the role of Euripides' savagely tormented heroine...
...Whitsun Tuesday in 1865, the Sunday-school children of an English mill-town mission named Horbury Brig, in Devonshire, were scheduled to march to church to join the children of the nearby parish in worship. As the mission's curate later told it, "Mr. Fred Knowles [a church warden] came to me at the Vicarage and asked what they were to sing on the long walk. We discussed one thing and then another and I said I would write a processional. 'You must be sharp about it,' said Mr. Knowles, 'for this is Saturday and there...
Half a million Parisians, valises in hand, jostled aboard 257 special trains to leave the capital for the biggest Whitsun weekend in history. Newspaper headlines, which intrigued but did not deter the holiday-goers, reported new macabre events in Algeria-and the bustling efforts of politicians to find France a new Premier...
...midnight, in the middle of the annual three-day Whitsun holiday migration, the first important railroad strike since 1926 hit Great Britain. Seeking better pay, about 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen left their jobs on the nationalized railroads. Rejecting government appeals to stay on the job, the strikers ground all regular trains to a halt...
...young West German republic had made a heartening display of nerve. Like their "Youth Rally" in Berlin last Whitsun, the Communists' "resistance day" was a sodden fizzle...