Word: canings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Touraine's lights up with Christmas decorations and Coop windows display ties for Papa and a candy cane for sister Sue, the CRIMSON winter competition is about to begin...
...caretaker Pope, providing a transition to the next reign, he destroyed the notion within minutes after his election-so much so that some Romans fondly recall the story told of Sixtus V (1585-1590), who in conclave seemed decrepit and ailing but, as soon as elected, threw away his cane, rose to his full height and announced in a vigorous voice: "Now I am Caesar...
...bitter old man, lacking even the salt of irony. With a single yellow eye, and white hair growing in his ears. Leaning on a hickory cane, complaining out of pride, sexless slowly rubbing one palsied hand across his navel and nodding in that dead omniscience of the past. Waiting for the world to come to him like a pig-tailed child. He is a Society, a god sometimes called Moloch...
...Indonesia, East German engineers, attempting to demonstrate that the Communist world has as much to offer technologically as the U.S., blandly explained that it was not their fault that the $8,000,000 cane-sugar refinery near Djokjakarta, which they had promised to finish by now, was still not in production. Pooh-poohing Indonesian charges that the mill's machinery had been designed to process beet rather than cane sugar, the East Germans huffily and indignantly complained that everything would have worked out fine had Indonesian contractors laid proper concrete foundations...
...Such a Compulsion." Boats were always Rosy's favorite target, but he did not always have his present preferred status; J. P. Morgan once smashed Rosy's camera with a cane when Rosy tried to sneak a shot of the old yachtsman coming ashore from his famed Corsair. Photographing yachts in all kinds of weather, Rosy has hung by one hand from a halyard and thudded his skull against Foto's deck, but has never gone overboard...