Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future camouflagers actually hide the military emplacements on realistic battlefields, and the vital industrial plants on miniature cities. The models, some of which are copied from real urban and rural communities, are illuminated by special lights to simulate the different times of day and reveal accurately the shadows cast by the sun's rays...
...four Houses which buy the most stamps between now and Christmas vacation will each get one of the cartoons, two of which feature the sultry Dragon Lady, one of blond Burma, and the other of the entire cast, Terry...
...crossed a high ridge climbing an almost impossibly steep path covered with a thick layer of soft wet mud. The forest was soaking wet and the dripping mist in the treetops cast a sepulchral gloom over everything. Here we met a man, emaciated, filthy, saturated to the skin, staggering blindly forward, murmuring the word "Indoo," India, the goal to which he had been pressing literally for months. This Chinese soldier was alone, a thousand miles from home, and dying on his feet. Yet he was still going. The next man we came to was a sturdy young man, about...
...first broadcast (Hello, Americans!) for Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Affairs committee was laid (by dramatic license) in Rio de Janeiro, where Welles had recently passed three months making a picture (It's All True, as yet unreleased). With the assistance of Carmen Miranda, an orchestra, a cast, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, enthusiastic Orson took his listeners on a radio Cook's tour of Brazil that was lively, though bumpy in spots...
...Juan Hill & Santiago, 1898, were not much as battles but they cast Spain out of the Western Hemisphere and indirectly got the U.S. the Philippines. U.S. casualties: 225 killed, 1.384 wounded at San Juan Hill; at Santiago one killed, one wounded...