Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert Schweitzer, musician, medico and missionary, sailed for Europe en route to his jungle home, leaving a word of consolation for his sweltering New York hosts: "Don't talk to me about humidity. There's no wind in Africa and sometimes we can see the palm trees stand for ten days without a single movement of their branches...
...therefore, being sound of mind, wind, and limb, having at least as much sense as an animal, do hereby declare war on my enemies, and ... I will fight them every step of the way until we achieve the equality as American citizens which is guaranteed by our Constitution...
...bombs went off according to plan. According to one eyewitness, "the balloons appeared to rise to about 4,500 ft. Then they exploded in midair or fell into the water, or, blown by a sudden southeast wind, sped over the city and dropped on the besiegers. Venetians, abandoning their homes, crowded into the streets and squares to enjoy the strange spectacle . . . When a cloud of smoke appeared in the air to make an explosion, all clapped and shouted. Applause was greatest when the balloons blew over the Austrian forces and exploded, and in such cases the Venetians added cries...
...Bellamy and Larson are still cautious. Radioactive dust, they say, was blown high in the air by the explosion. Carried by the wind, it settled back to earth in a northeasterly area ten miles wide and 100 miles long. In parts of this area, the soil is detectably radioactive as far as six inches down, and the depth of penetration is slowly increasing...
Married. David 0. Selznick, 47, cinemagnate (Gone With the Wind, Duel in the Sun); and Jennifer Jones, 30, cinemactress (The Song of Bernadette) ; each for the second time; in Genoa. The marriage, solemnized in the midst of preparations for Jennifer's new European-made film, Gone to Earth, was scripted by Selznick himself. After some rumors that the wedding had been performed at sea, the couple foxed reporters by slipping off to Genoa's city hall. Fadeout: a moonlit honeymoon on the French Riviera aboard the Manona, a 33-ton chartered yacht...