Word: canings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London papers, the big story quickly became not George-Brown's resignation but press coverage of his subsequent tumble. After the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Express all carried front-page photos of the elder statesman's dive, the lordly Times weighed in with a cane-wagging editorial scolding them for lack of "compassion and delicacy" in showing George-Brown "fallen in the gutter." Perhaps, the Times added sarcastically, the other papers "resented his infringing their monopoly" there...
...From the same family as philodendron and dieffenbachia (dumb cane), which are also poisonous...
That is pure fiction and simple inattention to detail. As Chavez says (on page 212) someone gave him a cane, "and by the time we got to Modesto where I celebrated my birthday on the fifteenth day of the march, I was okay...
...robbed William Alfred '38, professor of English, at gunpoint at his Cambridge home Friday evening, stealing two dollars and a cane given to him by the late philosopher Raphael Demos...
...Paramaribo. There were hundreds of doctors, teachers and merchants among the emigrants, and the manpower hemorrhage included not only professionals but critically important farm workers as well. Surinam, a nation that imports more than 50% of its foodstuffs, must now also import farm workers to help harvest its sugar cane crops...