Word: beasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hell may not be a place of fiery torment but a state of loneliness and frustration. This still makes very little difference in view of the Bible's numerous statements that Hell is the common grave of all mankind and where "man hath no pre-eminence above a beast [Ecclesiastes...
...terror began when one of the 100 elephants in the procession stepped on some live coals dropped by accident from a torch. Trumpeting with pain, the huge beast charged its keeper, who daringly managed to catch it. chain the injured animal to a lamppost. The crowd closed in, jeering and taunting. Someone tried to shorten its chain, instead freed the maddened elephant, which this time charged the tormenting crowd, stomping with legs like tree trunks, flailing, smashing. A woman and child fell under its feet. The fleeing mob trampled eleven more people to death and injured 316 before the elephant...
...most venerable gimmick, the time machine. A crew of paleontologists is digging out the 50-million-year-old tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur. The leader jeeps off to visit a nearby physicist, leaving his crew to work on. As they dig deeper, the dinosaur tracks deepen as if the beast had been running. Farther on, sunk in the rock that ages ago was mud, they uncover the unmistakable spoor of a Jeep. Guess what the monster ate for dinner...
...Marco will not inherit the title, blandly admits that his use of it is "crass and commercial"), wispy, mustachioed Count Marco, 41, is a widower, an ex-actor (he played the fool in Twelfth Night), ex-producer of television soap operas, ex-hairdresser. His column "Beauty and the Beast," smirkingly instructs San Francisco housewives on all manner of boudoir-and-bathroom behavior. A prize example...
Worse yet, young Red "agricultural experts" set impossibly high production quotas for the communes, drove man and beast so hard that abnormal numbers of cattle and water buffalo began to die of overwork. As for the peasants, reported Canton's Nan-fang Duily sadly, "quite a few commune members were found not to care very much about production quotas." By last June. Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen found himself obliged to report that, so far in 1959, land planted to food grains was running 1,300,000 acres behind 1958-a fact that promised to cost China...