Word: devourings
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Fidel Castro's revolution continues to devour its young. The latest to be condemned to the firing squad: Major William Morgan, 32, U.S.-born adventurer, who, only a year ago, won Castro's praise for foiling a guerrilla landing in Cuba by playing double agent. Found guilty of smuggling arms to anti-Castro guerrillas, Morgan at 10:30 one night last week became the 598th counter-revolutionary to be executed by the Castro government...
...state laws fixing the slaughtering age for cows at 25 years were unreasonable and suggested that 15 was old enough. According to one Delhi official's bitter estimate, the 10% of India's cows that are old, economically useless and fit only for the rest home program devour the output of 40 million of India's 300 million cultivated acres. "Man eats cows in other countries, but here the cow is eating man," says a Congress party leader. But he says it in private. Calling for more money for more rest homes for old cows, Nehru himself...
...yourself of all that makes your life a life. You are letting yourself slip scrapily down the coarse file of pure scholarship. You will find talking to our Managing Editor a good deal easier than hobnobbing with a wounded puma. You will discover that Radcliffe editors do not, actually, devour their young alive. No candidate has ever crawled into University' Hall with the news that he was made to run on beds of broken glass...
...coal-mining and farming town of Carmarthen in time for the Rebecca riots of 1839-44. Strapping young Jethro, the book's hero, joins the night-riding Rebeccas-angry farmers who black their faces and wear their wives' nightgowns to raid the hated tollgates, which devour profits on produce taken to market...
...most of the first reel the spectator sees nothing but financial tentacles, as a vast holding company stealthily envelops a small plastics manufacturer (Dean Jagger) and prepares to devour him. Then all at once the head and center of the conspiracy appears, and lo! it is not really a monster after all. It's a tall, dark and handsome young fellow (James Garner, better known as TV's Bret Maverick) who is rich but honest, smart with a heart-a sort of beatified billionaire who suffers terribly because he "can't make anything but money...