Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young larvae would soon die and the cycle would be broken. Barlow, an old China hand (21 years a Baptist medical missionary) and longtime Rockefeller Foundation hookworm researcher in Egypt, retired five years ago to devote himself, as an Egyptian Government health officer, to snail extermination. Weapon: a copper sulphate purge, dumped into the Nile and its network of canals...
Knife & Corn. The Maya, he says, were remote cousins of the Inca, the Iroquois and the Eskimo. Squat, copper-colored, often cross-eyed (admiring crossed eyes, they hung beads of resin before the eyes of their infants to induce a squint), they were wise, brilliant, cruel...
...sent my wife to the garden, then I locked the back door, shut the windows and placed Jessie in the corner by the gas copper. I gave her a piece of chocolate to suck. I laid my Home Guard respirator beside me and turned on the gas. I played with Jessie and kissed her goodbye. Then I had to put on my respirator. She closed her eyes and then went limp...
Peggy Guggenheim, copper-rich patroness of the arts and collector of artists, was out two dreamlike paintings, an abstract sculpture and a utilitarian gewgaw. Incredibly stolen from her art gallery: Flat Landscape and Child of the Mountain by Paul Klee, an untitled chromium relief by Hans Arp, and a fancy bottle top wrought by Author Laurence Vail, her first husband...
...woman trouble there'll be Steve's secretary, a tasty Samoan dish named Feeta Feeta. Harder to handle will be Copper Calhoon, "not exactly a good girl, yet within the legal limits. She's the daughter of a Wall Street wolf and just as tough as her old man. It's much easier to make a gal a baddie than a goodie. My plots are complicated. You've got to read it every day so that you'll know what happens. Make it so they can't stand...