Word: across
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperately cramped state, West Germany has been further burdened by a staggering influx of 9,000,000 refugees from the East-members of German minorities expelled from Eastern European countries, fugitives from the Red regime in East Germany. Daily, a thousand more straggle across the border into the Western zones. Some of the refugees have done well in the West; most live in misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space...
...Paris, thousands of workers went to their jobs on bicycles, in private cars, in big blue sightseeing buses mobilized by the government. One energetic bank clerk arrived on roller skates. Across France, food shops, department stores, restaurants were open, mail was delivered. One of the Socialists' own cabinet ministers called the strike a "fiasco." But the Communists had different ideas on what was good advertising: they triumphantly labeled the strike a succès éclatant...
...rounds last week that Moscow had completed plans to overthrow Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. The coup d'etat, so the story ran, would start with a Moscow-engineered revolt in Belgrade. Tito would be liquidated. Satellite parachutists would descend on the Yugoslav capital; mechanized troops would roll across the frontier, presumably from Hungary, where by latest reports the Russians had five divisions (including two armored), were busily constructing airstrips. The rumors differed only on the timing of the coup: some said it was due this month, others next spring...
...folksy side, the show has some agreeable music and peppy dancing, but nothing better; and as if Texas weren't big enough, it makes several fumbling forays across the state line into Oklahoma!. The show is actually best when it has a straight Broadway blare and stomp and when the cast, which could use more personal glamour, can show its professional savvy. Somehow Texas just can't find the right girl or gag in the pinches; it dawdles when it needs to spurt, and turns cheap when it ought to be charming...
Alone Baker gave the School grounds as excellent as those of any other graduate school in the country, for his funds bought every permanent building that now stands across the river, including towered Baker Library. In 1925 he added an extra $1,000,000 to his gift when it appeared the original $5,000,000 was going to run out; and only last year an additional $500,000 was received from Baker's estate to keep facilities up to date...