Word: quay
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...describing the flight for British Broadcasting Corp. "There were invalids, some so ill that they had to be carried on stretchers, but they had to be taken back and none knows to what fate because it was impossible to get them on ship. . . . We stood for hours on the quay and the heat increased. One poor lady died. We had to pass through customs-heaven knows why-and at last got on board...
Huge crowds jammed the docks in Montevideo harbor one morning last week, cheered loud & long as the sleek, grey U. S. S. Quincy steamed slowly up to the quay. No automobiles were permitted within two blocks of the wharf and heavy guards kept the crowds far from the cruiser's berth. But when sailors came ashore they were greeted with enthusiastic cries of "Viva Roosevelt!" "Viva los Estados Unidos...
...Vares are out, Quay and Penrose are dead, Joe Grundy is superannuated. The man who ran the G. O. P. in Pennsylvania last week was Mr. Joseph...
More aptly than cold Quay or Rabelaisian Penrose, Joseph Ridgway Grundy, who lives in and owns Bristol, Pa., for 40-odd years has symbolized in Pennsylvania the well-fed forces of conservatism. Mr. Grundy, 77, still rosy of cheek and twinkly of eye behind round gold-rimmed spectacles, with his round, white-fringed face, round little body, is a combination of Pickwick and Foxy Grandpa. Last week Mr. Grundy was resting in Florida, but with the full onset of spring he is expected back soon in the once-beautiful riverfront village which industrialism has made into an ugly mill town...
...were all that remained last week of the coastal town of Namsos (see map). In the snow outside the hospital French doctors had stained a giant crimson cross, which German bombers respected. The Germans' ability to aim was proved by gaping holes in the little (800 ft.) town quay, where some 15,000 British and French troops had landed from small boats, from big transports (including the 21,833-ton Empress of Australia, see p. 25) that had to anchor out in the fjord...