Reaching New Heights

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1. NYC mayor in 1931

Jimmy Walker

Abe Beame

Fiorello LaGuardia

Boss Tweed

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2. NYC borough - NOT

Staten Island

Long Island

Manhattan

Da Bronx

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3. Hoover’s VP

Charles Curtis

Henry A. Wallace

Franklin Roosevelt

Calvin Coolidge

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4. burgher

an inhabitant of a borough or a town

a member of the middle class

a prosperous solid citizen

all the above

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5. New York was named for

Giovanni da Verrazzano of York

King James II of England

Duke of Earl

Peter Stuyvesant

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6. the “U” of U-2

uniform

ultra

utility

ugly

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7. gulag

Russian version of Hungarian goulash

a representative council in Russia

an urn with a spigot at its base used especially in Russia to boil water for tea

the penal system of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consisting of a network of labor camps

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8. Bolshevik

a native or inhabitant of Belarus

one who advocates or practices socialism

a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917

Vladimir Ilyich, Russian Communist leader (b. 1870, d. 1924)

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9. flameout

exhaustion of physical or emotional strength or motivation usually as a result of prolonged stress or frustration

the unintentional cessation of operation of a jet airplane engine

to burn with an unsteady flame

a small tubular instrument for directing a jet of air or other gas into a flame so as to concentrate and increase the heat

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10. mayday

the first day of the month of May

calamity

an international radio-telephone signal word used as a distress call, from the French m'aider help me

suffering extreme need or anxiety