Word: diese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell Boy. In Stubbs Bay, Minn., when exasperated residents demanded to know why he drove through the town in an ancient hearse and clanged a locomotive bell each day at 6 a.m., noon, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Farm Caretaker Tom Riley, 73, explained: "A fellow ought to have some...
Warning Fist. Even New York's Republican William E. Miller, who had sponsored the bill, tried to recommit it; he feared that Hitler had come to power by "decrees just like this legislation. In its present form it will destroy more civil liberties and civil rights than it protects...
But 3,000 years of caste dies slowly. In most of India's 560,000 villages, untouchables are still forbidden to enter Brahmans' living areas, use their wells, or watch them eat. Temples are theoretically open to them, but they are still purged with milk -floor, walls, ceilings...
Cork Popper. Meet Ella Beecher, 16 years old and unhappy on a western Kansas farm in 1914. Mother is an Old Testament termagant in gingham, a Puritan who never tires of inveighing against sin, fun and sloth, who can drop the appropriate Biblical thunderbolt at the popping of a cork...
Ella grows up to a joyless marriage to a decent local grocer. She tends store, she raises her nephews, she keeps house and plays bridge when she has to. But her neighbors bore her, the birth of a daughter fails to enrich her unsmiling nature, and neither good times nor...