Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight to the finish, Soviet tanks might win military control because an unorganized, unfed people cannot fight for long against an organized army. Thousands of Hungarians would be dead or seriously wounded. But what mattered to Hungary as a nation was that her Soviet overlords had been forced to dissolve their all-Communist government and set up in its place a government that included non-Communist elements. The Soviet leaders might later attempt to hedge on this concession, but the fact was that they had made it in front of the whole world. This was the first time in their...
Only about 1,000 Americans a year are bitten by rattlesnakes, and of these only 30 die. But this record, says Klauber, should not encourage amateurs to get familiar with rattlesnakes. Even men who handle them professionally, he says, are often bitten. An apparently dead rattlesnake should never be touched carelessly; it may revive and strike. Even a severed head can bite for half an hour...
...repudiated her son's nationalistic philosophy she loved him deeply, and we may gather that he was the inspiration for much of her work if not for the famous Death series done later in her life. As she wrote in 1916 "Made a drawing: the mother letting her dead son into her arms. I might make a hundred such drawings and yet I do not get any closer to him. I am seeking him as if I had to find him in the work. And yet everything I can do is so childishly feeble and inadequate. I feel obscurely that...
Also yesterday, Adlai Stevenson categorized a list of Eisenhower failures to work out an effective Middle East solution. U.S. foreign policy in this area, he said, "is at an absolute dead...
Rolling down the brand-new Kansas Turnpike that will be officially opened this week. Wyoming's unwary Republican Governor Milward L. Simpson forgot that the fancy road comes to a dead end at the Oklahoma state line. His car hurtled off the concrete into an Oklahoma wheat field. The only one of five riders to be hurt was the governor's wife Lorna, who had forgotten to fasten her safety belt, but escaped with slight cuts and bruises...