Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Rome's show of force was no empty gesture. With unexpected vigor, he exhorted Italians not to let themselves be scared away from the polls by Communist rough stuff. His theme: either all will vote freely, or none will vote at all. Shivering in a chill spring wind that swept across the ruins of Monte Cassino, he cried: "Form a bulwark! . . . Defend Italy. . . . Vote for Italy. . . ." In Sardinia, before stocking-capped old peasants and natty coal miners fresh from their showers, he said with imposing understatement: "I am dissatisfied with the present state of public order." Before shepherds...
...Atlanta, Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell and visiting lecturer Lady Astor were introduced to each other, and quickly showed U.N. how. "You will never know how much that book meant to us," said Lady Astor, speaking for England. "Lady Astor, I hope the British will send over here more people like you," said Novelist Mitchell, "with the power to speak to the heart...
...evening last week a shimmering four-engined transport touched down at an airport outside Frankfurt, Germany. Seven weary but grinning Chicagoans stepped out into a 35-mile-an-hour wind that felt like Michigan Avenue in November. "A little University of Chicago" in Germany had come to set up shop...
...Nadherney are potentially superior to the present crop of Cadet ball carriers, but he wonders how they can gain "behind a small, weak line." Where will the Elis finish in the Ivy League? "It's quite possible that Yale will lose seven out of nine games next fall and wind up in the league celler ... why the Elis over scheduled Vanderbilt and Wisconsin is a mystery...
Balloting in Agassiz House in the Annex Yard will wind up at 2 o'clock Monday. Final count will come that night...