Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wolf-suckled, snake-taught, elephant-advised" Mowgli, Ireland has produced a sheep boy, Africa a baboon boy who devoured 89 prickly pears in one sitting. Seven years ago, newsmen seriously reported that a gazelle boy, was found running, at 50 m.p.h., stark naked across the Syrian desert. (The giveaway clue: he was obviously accustomed to wearing clothes since his arms and face were tanned, but his body was white...
...thousands wandering the streets of southeast London that day. Two Soviet cargo ships were tied up in London at the time, and the Waterloo Airways Terminal is part of the postal district in which the letter was mailed. The message itself, according to Colonel Bassett, gave no clue to Burgess' whereabouts. It came, as The Manchester Guardian put it, "like a rap on the door-but when the door is opened, nobody is there...
...advertisements and hopes for the best. Prescribing iron is merely treating the symptom, and often worthless: an adult male should get all the iron he needs from a normal diet, unless he is losing blood; so should a woman, barring unusual menstrual difficulties. The iron deficiency may be a clue which will lead the thorough physician to a kidney disorder, a liver infection, inflammation of the heart membrane, or even an unsuspected cancer...
...Three of the recent TIME cover personalities shown here are identified by the three groups of statements below. No score for this section, but just for fun, see if you can write in the correct name on the first clue. If not, read the second clue. And don't feel too bad if you have to go on to the third...
...vest with a time-bomb mechanism, Uncle Kincaid is being taken for a ride by a knife-wielding criminal named 3-D Magee. But the sounds coming over Kincaid's open wrist radio, hidden under his sleeve, have just given Tracy and the boys at headquarters a valuable clue to Kincaid's whereabouts...