Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, more rioting had broken out in Johannesburg, where someone tossed a bomb into an Indian shop. In Durban, things had grown quiet enough for officials to have a look-around. Amid the bloodstained and ash-strewn debris, they put the cost at more than $1,000,000 worth of destroyed property, 1,000 injured and 300-odd killed. In all the misery brought on, however indirectly, by the grasping and oppressive hand of the master race, only one white man had died...
...number was chosen to correspond to the membership of the Jews' last "Great Assembly," which met (according to Jewish tradition) in the 5th Century B.C. Its legislative work is summarized in its exhortation: "Be cautious in pronouncing judgment, have many pupils, and build a fence around the Torah...
...eleven months since he returned from Washington, suave "Ivan" Ivanissevich has proved himself the most versatile of all the men around Perón. He had hardly settled down at home before he had a chance to add a couple of cubits to his considerable stature as a surgeon. Amid blaring Peronista publicity, he took out the President's appendix (TIME, March 15). From surgery he moved to culture, soon became the high priest and top philosopher of Peronism...
...Cannes, France, Aly Khan called in reporters and handed around typewritten statements announcing his engagement to Rita Hayworth (he is still married to his first wife; Rita's divorce from Orson Welles became final last November). Said he: "I am going to marry Miss Hayworth as soon as I am free to do so." Cinemactress Hayworth, Aly's house guest in various resorts since they met on the Riviera last summer, quietly announced that she was "in full agreement" with his announcement...
...doors for a week at a time," Murch says. "Then I'll take a walk and look around vaguely for something to paint. The other day I found a dog's head at a taxidermist's. It was a fox terrier mounted on the wall like a moose." He generally finds what he is looking for in shop windows: "For instance that fish in the show. I'd been wanting to do a fish for years but there were practical difficulties, you might say. This one was smoked. It lasted over a week and a half...