Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result is something like an old-fashioned cuckoo clock with a smiling face emerging to indicate sunshine and a dour face to indicate storm. The idea used to work like clockwork, too: dour or smiling, the face was still Communist. But the leaders whom the Kremlin now has to call on are men.who have suffered for their deviations, Marxists with the mark of Communist prisons on them, and ideas of their own. The men called back to power in Hungary last week were so-called "liberal" Communists. But it was they who, when the occasion demanded, had to preside over...
Sophisticated Arthritis.' In the U.S. there are 11 million people who have one form or another of the arthritis group of diseases-what grandma called her "rheumatiz," the genteel called rheumatism, and the pseudo-sophisticated now call arthritis. Each year, more than 300,000 people are made temporarily unemployable for varying periods by rheumatic diseases, and many of them become rheumatic invalids...
...anyone wants to know how to milk rattlesnakes, or how they taste French-fried, or whether their rattle is a love call, the place to find the answers is a monstrous (1,500 pp.) book called Rattlesnakes, published last week by Laurence M. Klauber (University of California Press; $17.50). The book covers rattlesnakes from A (Crotalus viridis abyssus) to Z (Crotalus zetazomae...
...Dance. Baby rattlesnakes are born alive, hatching from eggs retained in the mother's body. More vicious than the grownups, they strike with their tiny fangs at the slightest provocation. Mother rattlesnakes do not take care of their young. The rattle is a simple warning, not a love call, and males take only the briefest interest in the females. But male rattlesnakes have the odd custom of "wrestling" together, swaying their heads and bodies with a graceful rhythmic motion. The defeated snake is never bitten or otherwise hurt. Klauber is not sure of the purpose of the wrestling match...
Christians have always been puzzled by the Moslem conquest, which took Islam to the Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...