Word: amazons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the specially trained nine-man crew of artillerymen loaded her and hurried out of sight, 40-ft.-long "Amazon Annie" (also called "Atomic Annie") stood alone and silent on Nevada's Frenchman Flat. At a control point ten miles away, Atomic Energy Commission scientists got ready to turn on the remote-control firing apparatus. Then, at 8:30 one morning this week, the first atomic artillery shell ever fired whished from Amazon Annie's 280-mm. (11 in.) barrel and hurtled on its way. Above the target area, an atomic fireball blossomed, then a purplish cloud, that...
...became a Naval Observer and later in Buenos Aires, an Assistant Naval Attache. His fascination for Latin America did not develop at the University, however, where he majored in modern European history. After his junior year, a classmate urged him to join a snake-catching safari on the Amazon River. Glancing at the primitive spears in the corner of his room, he remarks, "After driving sixty miles up and over the Andes, we took a forty-foot mahogany canoc down the river, shooting at random crocodiles. . . I didn't bring any snakes back but I picked up a tiny marmoset...
...neatness and feminity and the emphasis on belts, accessories of all kinds are getting attention. The all-purpose leather pocketbook is being made in a variety of shapes and sizes, a boon to the little girl who looks as if she's carrying her laundry when she sports an Amazon-sized satchel bag. The favorite all-purpose gloves are still string-knit, with the British product out in front...
...metropolis of Sáo Paulo, 1,700 miles to the south. Flying over five emergency airfields that foundation men have opened along the way with their machetes. Brazilian air force planes next week will start the first scheduled air line service from Rio directly to Manaus on the Amazon...
...lovely, graceful young creature. Another lot said I was gawky, hoydenish, gaunt, like something escaped from a tomb." In The Warrior's Husband, she was fired and rehired before the show reached Broadway. The play was a hit and so was Kate. As Antiope, an Amazon queen, Kate came hurtling down a ramp, lugging a prop deer; she wrestled with Actor Colin Keith-Johnston; she made prodigious leaps across stage; she wore a short tunic that showed her long and lovely legs. She caught Hollywood...