Word: camels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Straws for the Camel. In Asbury Park, N.J., two 14-year-olds said they had thrown some stolen money into a lake, let the police drain the lake to look for it, then led them to where it really was-on the bridge overhead. In Terre Haute, Ind., the young man who held up Detective C. D. Thompson and ran away with his trousers brightly explained: "This old head of mine just tells me to do things sometimes, and I do them...
...Moroccan Chief AbdelKader indicated his disrespect for French authority by regaling his followers with nine camel-loads of human heads. Next he taught them how to fight in the desert by ambushing a French army, practically annihilating it. Nobody learned the lesson better than Sublieutenant Bazaine, who was wounded, promoted to lieutenant. Later Bazaine learned to assume his famous poker face as head of France's Bureau arabe (military intelligence) at Tlemcen, Algeria...
...Reader's Digest families got the answer - a five-page debunking not only of the Old Gold blurb, but of all the other big cigaret advertisers as well. The Digest had waited until the Federal Trade Commission issued complaints against the manufacturers of Lucky Strike, Camel, Old Gold and Philip Morris cigarets. The Commission made these complaints...
Brigands & Beauties. The old Ethiopia goes its way. Along the new mountain highways, old-fashioned Ethiopian brigands lie in wait for British truck convoys instead of camel caravans, use hand grenades and rifles instead of spears and poisoned arrows. Ethiopians still farm with wooden, wife-drawn plows, still live in filth and squalor...
...only unneighborly conduct. Democracy's rebirth will be hard, most ungodly hard. But enslavement would be harder. We have no other alternative. We must conquer by heroic self-denial or be conquered by ruthless force. World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye. He must go through. He must bend low, even to the dust. He must slip off his load and his proud trappings of purse and power. To be saved for 'a new Heaven and a new Earth' the diverse people of democratic civilization...