Word: calicoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carcasses & Calico. To the adventuring sailors of Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator, the idea of freedom for the African was as unheard of as the 20th century minerals germanium and uranium now being mined in the Congo. Slavery and servitude were the African's way of life, and in the first west coast trading posts established at the malarial edge of jungles as dark and green and impenetrable as the ocean bottom, native chieftains were only too glad to exchange the surplus humanity of their fiefs for the trinkets and calicoes of the newcomers. The human life...
...California's Calico Mountains have yielded fossilized aquatic insects 25 million years old-the oldest ever found. Discovered by a U.S. Geological Survey team, the specimens included mites, dragonfly nymphs, fairy shrimps. Almost all were perfectly preserved, showed only minute differences from their modern counterparts. One scientific explanation of bugs' slow evolution: more adaptable to climatic change than mammals, insects have rarely been found to change their bodies to survive ice ages and warm spells...
...against the laissez-faire doctrine of Liberalism with its conception of labor as a commodity. The great Tory reformer Disraeli, a biographer once wrote, "could not believe that men. men of flesh with mobile faces . . . were condemned to combine like so many crooked atoms to produce the cheapest possible calico in the richest possible world." In that day, said Rab, "Conservatism did not hesitate to invoke the collective power of society to redress the social wrongs caused by economic development. Now Socialism unduly exalts the state, and Conservatives must emphasize the importance of the individual...
...sweet 'taters. Lost two front teeth and a lot of hair in a personal encounter with an opponent. Donated to 200 preachers, gave 4,000 fans to churches. Gave away one bull, eight shoats, seven head of sheep to barbecues; gave away two pairs of suspenders, five calico dresses, five dolls and 15 baby rattles, kissed 150 babies, kindled 25 fires, put up 14 cook stoves, cut 15 cords of stove wood, promised twelve pups-the old female had only six. Carried 75 buckets of water, picked 25 gallons of blackberries, hauled 100 bags of dairy feed, unloaded...
...make about $75 a week, Newcomer Tom Morton is effective, in a junior-Brando sort of way. The other redeeming feature is Tallulah Bankhead, as the star for whom Playwright Morton is trying to build a vehicle. She plays a bowdlerized version of herself, fancying herself demure in calico, giving hell to Leo Durocher for losing a ball game, and calling everyone "dahling...