Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they pressed in on the President's Cadillac, a great cloud of dust arose, and the light of bonfires and of lanterns held high by hollow-eyed Hindu functionaries gave the scene an exotic glow. Tongues of humanity darted back and forth across the road in front of the moving wheels, as helpless police tried to clear the path. The procession cut through them slowly, like the prow of a ship, and the crowd rolled back again like the stubborn seas...
...muleback across dusty roads, on rattletrap chartered buses, walking down steep mountain paths, the Greeks of Cyprus this week practiced what their forebears invented 2,500 years ago. In the first popular elections since 1931, Cyprus got ready to become a self-governing republic in February. Under the Anglo-Greek-Turkish truce to end the island's four-year civil war, the new republic of Cyprus is to have a President elected by the island's Greek community, a Vice President chosen by its smaller Turkish community. The Turkish Cypriots, by acclamation, had already chosen that Vice President...
...Algeria. Schlüter survived that first bomb attempt and a later one that buckled his Mercedes sedan and killed his mother. Frankfurt Gun-Runner Georg Puchert was not so lucky. When he started his Mercedes one morning last March, a bomb exploded squarely under him. Puchert fell dead across the wheel, summoning police by the pressure of his body on the horn...
...focus for a few minutes. Then the balloon started slowly down, drifting south over Nebraska and into Kansas. As they approached the ground, the crew cut the gondola loose from the balloon and popped a 100-ft. parachute. A gusty wind caught the parachute, dragged the gondola across pastures and through fences for half a mile before marines following in helicopters caught it and cut it loose. Bruised and shaken, the scientists climbed out. The gondola was a battered wreck (see cut). Moore could walk, but Ross was so badly shaken up that one of the tracking helicopters took...
...Gallup poll asked that question across the U.S., published the result this week. Two out of three people, reported Gallup, believe that the ad pitches they hear on TV make phony claims. The poll also showed that the more education a viewer has, the less likely he is to believe what the advertiser tells...