Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clues. Dr. Segal first discovered that slugs have an extraordinary biological clock that runs true for a whole year. Wild slugs regularly start laying eggs about the first of August. By 1958 Dr. Segal had a whole second generation of slugs that had no experience of any environment but the laboratory. He kept all his slugs under artificial light for eleven hours a day and controlled the temperature and humidity. Thus they were cut off from any clues they normally might get from nature-changes of air temperature or length of the day. But the laboratory-bred slugs produced their...
...article, which is very unfavorable to America, was written by Anatole Valiuzhenich, a member of the student editor group which visited the U.S.A. He was also assigned by the Committee of Youth Organizations of the U.S.S.R. to assist the American exchange group which visited the U.S.S.R. during July and August...
...Ernest Gruening, Colorado's John A. Carroll, Montana's James E. Murray, Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Ohio's Stephen M. Young, Pennsylvania's Joseph S. Clark, South Carolina's Olin Johnston, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph. *In August 1951, by a scared mare that Morse was showing at a fair in Orkney Springs...
...Forced into a 1957 alliance to overthrow Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, the perpetually warring Liberal and Conservative parties invented a rigid agreement to divide political power equally for the next 16 years. Every political organism, from Congress to town councils, was neatly bisected. Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo last August took the first four-year stint as President, with the understanding that he would be succeeded by a Conservative...
...circuit of three decades ago. In a way, they are so bad that they are disarming. There is a youthful nice-kid quality about them, and an innocent gaiety that captivates audiences: Ford and Hines were an instant national hit when Jack Paar gave them a guest shot last August...