Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...double doors into the Salle Victor Hugo, everyone tried hard to relax, joking with old friends, shaking hands with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko" (let's make this one snappy!). "Very good," said Bevin...
...live in the Jarvis Field and Business School developments-while 100 more will find lodging , though definitely not low-cost, in the recently acquired Brunswick Hotel. More than anything else, University Hall has counted on its allotment of facilities at Fort Devens to satisfy the demand at its pack next fall. But all of these projects combined can house but 900 families. The remaining 1600 applicants will form the ranks of Cambridge's own Displaced Persons, shuttling between boarding house and hotels until either patience or health gives...
...children screamed along in ecstatic pursuit. The bandit dodged into the next street, cut through side streets, trying to shake them off. But the pack only increased in size and vocal power. It was a familiar game on familiar grounds...
...from Rome by Samuel Alphonsus Cardinal Stritch, managed to get through the ceremony with a nose that had been through a chilling experience. Playing host to visiting bishops the night before, the Archbishop had tripped, taken a nose dive. Physicians insisted on keeping the archiepiscopal neb in an ice pack all night...
Besides this quiet library there is no other place about his Belmont home that is like a scholar's retreat. Professor McIlwain and his family share the rambling, three-story house with his "houn" pack--three cocker spaniels and a German shepherd. Lizzie, the shepherd, is a rather lethargic creature, but the cockers, trailing a flying wake of carpets, play a floppy-eared game of follow the leader in and out of doorways, up and down the stairs...