Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The result may be the flight of French brains and resources from North Africa. In the first few dizzy weeks of independence, French officials in Tunisia were curtly told to "conform with Moslem customs," e.g., eight hours of uninterrupted work daily, no long lunch hours, Friday instead of Sunday holidays...
The Dallas kids yelled as the fat man stumped onstage, flashed an 88-key grin and tore into the piano with both hands, like a starving man wolfing a platter of chicken. The kids shrilled an octave higher as the performer knocked out a couple of bars introduction, then quieted...
There is no evidence either that the latter-day Reds have applied Pavlov's principles to their practices in extorting confessions or making brainwashed conversions. Many experts believe that confession and conversion should not be lumped, that confessions involve different emotional mechanisms. (Another distinction: confessions and temporary conversions are...
Next day the network offered its "sincere apologies for any personal distress resulting from this telecast," scrapped kinescopes that would have carried the interview to eleven of the 79 stations handling the show, gave Parker and Hamilton an offer-which they scorned-of equal time on Wallace's show...
The organizer eventually gets the shiv in a manner viciously reminiscent of the death of I.L.G.W.U.'s William Lurye in 1949, and after a while the dress manufacturer cops it too. That leaves only the manufacturer's son (Kerwin Mathews), a superslick young article who hoodwinks the hoods...