Word: customers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since they lived in a rainy region where only the toughest relics avoid disintegration, almost nothing would be known about the Olmecs if it had not been for their curious custom of carving in jade and hard stone and burying the carvings. To judge by their figurines, they bound their babies' heads to make them abnormally highbrowed. They probably worshiped a jaguar god, or at least they carved fierce stone images of beasts half man, half jaguar. They also carved monstrous human heads nine feet high with petulant baby faces. They floored their ceremonial rooms with clay tinted...
...society that thinks that by taking men's lives, it improves itself. At the grave, which they have eagerly dug for the customary reward of some snout (tobacco), four prisoners perform a final act reminiscent of the division of spoils on Calvary long ago. It is the prison custom not to send on the condemned man's last letters, but to bury them with him. As they are dropped in the grave, the prisoners grab for them. "Give us them bloody letters," says one. "They're worth money to one of the Sunday papers...
...sooner had he written his ten questions on the blackboard than twelve of his 16 students began following an old Spanish custom by discussing the questions aloud and threshing out their answers. During the whole two hours they peered at one another's papers, passed around notes, kept up a constant chatter. McNaughton begged in vain for silence. When he asked three of the most recalcitrant students to move to other desks, one flatly refused. Finally, the desperate professor implored his interpreter to intervene. Scandalized, the interpreter declared that he could not possibly tell his social superiors...
...ring: they were accused of having "resorted to methods of intrigue and formed a collusion against the Central Committee"; i.e.,. they had opposed Boss Nikita, possibly attempted to ease him out of the key job of First Party Secretary. But Khrushchev had won out and, as is the Communist custom, was privileged to hurl the whole book of party crimes at the losers. As is also Communist custom, the ink was hardly dry on Nikita's indictment before the party pack was snapping at the losers' heels. Biggest bark came from the army newspaper Red Star, which denounced...
...newest mosque in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most magnificent in the world was dedicated last week in Washington, D.C., and the President of the U.S. took his shoes off for the occasion. There had been considerable nervousness over how President Eisenhower would observe the Moslem custom of removing shoes on entering a mosque. Grey cotton slippers had been prepared to slip over his shoes, but Ike decided to go all the way, shed his new black oxfords before he put on the slippers; Mamie took off her white pumps and stood in her nylons. Then they stepped...