Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education bill. But if such aid became a permanent policy of Government, would the nation's schools ultimately and inevitably fall into the hands of federal control? Should parochial and private schools which teach Christianity be excluded from federal aid and left to get along as best they could...
Throughout the night the poorly organized rebels, supported by tanks and field guns, mounted attack after attack on the palace, the police station and the army airport. The town's best residential sections, Tivoli and Santa Clara, were squeezed in a triangle formed by the military academy on the north, the airbase on the south and Fort Guardia de Honor on the east. Tanks clattered through as street fighters kept up a running battle from doorway to doorway, the military bases exchanged artillery fire and government planes zoomed down to bomb tanks and strafe street fighters. The quaking government...
...Grown best in the shade at 2,000 feet, ixbut (Euphorbia lancifolia) is a plant which exudes milky sap. It has dark green leaves marked with a white "V." The strength and dosage of ixbut are remarkably uniform: take five leaves or five sections of stem (about five grams) to brew a cup of tea; drink six cups...
...Ringling Bros, circus, nearly a dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
...entertainment. She walks with the free & easy stride of the first-sacker on a girls' high-school baseball team (which she once was), approaches the microphone like a polite salesgirl (which she also was) addressing a customer. About half the time, Mindy is not at her best. She still has to jog the echoes of half a dozen better-known singers out of her ears; but in top form, her voice is clear as spring water...