Word: blues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time was different, Anna Thompson felt. She and her husband went to a white farmhouse near Hickory Corners, Mich, to examine a blond, blue-eyed boy of six. Nobody knew much about Tommy O'Neill who was small and shy. About all the police did know was that he had been handed over to a Mexican couple in Toledo, Ohio about the time of Ronnie's disappearance. Michigan welfare authorities took him from the Mexicans after they moved to Lansing, boarded him at the Hickory Corners farm...
...Ronnie had webbed toes," she said. An attendant removed a shoe and sock; the toes of Tommy's right foot were webbed. She smiled triumphantly. "The other was the same!" she said, and, sure enough, the toes on Tommy's left foot also were webbed. Tommy had blue eyes, and his ears lay flat, like Ronnie...
...modernization is the creation of new demands-a great market for progress. Most Turks would understand the words of Celtik village's oldest inhabitant, 92-year-old Hayriye Soydan. Stooped, wrinkled and deaf, she still wears the traditional western Anatolian peasant costume-flowered baggy trousers, dark blouse, a blue-and-white yasmak (handkerchief) around her head. Sitting cross-legged on a long sofa, she told her (and, in a sense, Turkey's) story...
...Bogota's plush-and-gold Colon theater, 500 blue-ribboned Conservative delegates last week nominated pouchy-eyed Laureano Gomez, 60, as their candidate in next month's presidential elections. In Colombia, which has seen little peace since the Bogota uprising of April 9, 1948, this amounted to a declaration of bitter political-if not civil...
...they are reminiscent of the wartime "Fighting Lady." the scenes which show a busy combat formation center deep inside the carrier are intensely interesting, and the views of the carrier deck, jammed from side to side with blazing aircraft against a backdrop of explosions and tracers in the deep blue sky, are unforgettable. Cooper and the other actors are skilfully blended into these newsreels between flashes of exploding Zeroes and miles of cloud-covered ocean...