Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dark Hudson River. A few villagers who had been fishing for white perch pulled up their lines, strolled across the New York Central tracks to the little concrete platform of the Hyde Park railroad station. When the President's special train slid around the bend from Poughkeepsie, a cluster of 50 townfolk in light dresses, in shirt sleeves and slacks toed the edge of the platform. They left the graveled parking space free for Franklin Roosevelt. "We know where we're supposed to stand," chirped one cheerful gaffer...
...this week, east-coast sea traffic survived, but repeated poundings set afire a cluster of grain elevators at Southampton, and King George and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had narrow escapes while visiting troops in the southeast defense zone. An inn near the dugout into which Mr. Churchill ducked was cut in two. The proprietor simply moved his public dartboard to an outer wall and served ale to patrons outside through a hole in the masonry...
...holiday crowd filled the grounds of the New York World's Fair. It was the Fourth of July. The hum of many noises was punctuated by bursts of fireworks. Josephine Chmiel, candy-counter girl at the Polish Building, curiously watched a cluster of men, some of whom were uniformed police, standing in the roadway. One of them stooped over. As he straightened up again, a stupendous sound struck Josephine like a blow. The cluster of men vanished...
High in the Pyrenees Mountains, a cluster of craggy valleys comprises the semi-independent State of Andorra. A relic of the Middle Ages, the little (191 sq. mi.) country has been under the joint suzerainty of the French Government and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel since 1278, pays them a yearly tribute of about $86 in goats, sheep, cucumbers, other produce. Its 5,500 inhabitants scratch a hard living from the barren, upended land...
...previous issues have appeared comments of another kind, like John Dos Passos' "Best literary magazine in America," and the (London) Criterion'?, rarely awarded adjective, "excellent." Both kinds of opinion are held in literary circles; both suggest the curious resonance of the Partisan Review and the small cluster of radical intellectuals...