Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Hague had left his rococo Miami Beach winter home to rush back to Jersey City and take a hand in a city election. Defeat was in the wind. His stooge and nephew, Frank Hague Eggers, was on the run. Eggers, who had succeeded aging uncle Frank as mayor two years before, and four other Hague city commissioners were facing a well-heeled and powerful opposition which was determined to throw them out. The man in the high collar, who admits to 73 but is probably past 75, was fighting for political survival...
...performance, directed for the Network by Norman Foster and Frederic Davis, will wind up the Network's annual Mozart orgy. It is also a direct continuation of the opera series produced for WHRV during the past year by Davis and Foster. The specially prepared Paine Hall performance marks the beginning of a projected series of programs, open to the public, to be offered by the Network during the coming year...
...Calcutta (A Wind Is Rising), a U.S. newspaperman is tormented by the same white man's burden of guilt that weighs down all Shaplen's central characters. Archer Grayson watches an outbreak of Hindu-Moslem rioting and knows, "with a terrified shame, that he had been waiting for this to happen." When Archer gets in the way of a murderous mob, his death is a kind of anguished moral suicide. Author Shaplen as much as tells the readers: hate and violence anywhere are the concern of all decent men; they can be observed with indifference only...
Both yesterday and today's races were sailed under a 25-30 mile an hour wind...
...beyond all this is the indefinable quality o morale and esprit which Coach Bolles feels is the most important cause of all. It is an esprit which can only come from eight oarsmen, a cox, and a coach who are dogged enough to spend months in the cold wind or broiling sun learning to pull a 12-foot oar through the water with the precision and power to win races on perhaps five Saturday afternoons in a year and to pull just as hard despite the fact that 99 out of 100 people who watch them don't even know...