Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poe's big fender tanks split; motor fuel washed against the bus's hot rear engine, and flames exploded into the sky. Screaming wildly, the girls struggled to get out, pushed toward the front of the bus. Professor Ernest Sixta, who had been sitting in the back, yelled...
Truckdriver Poe, his left leg caught in the cab, cried to rescuers: "Don't let me die this way! Thank God you're here! Oh my God! Thank God you're here! Help me! Save me!" With crowbars and wrenches, emergency crews got Poe free, sent him...
There is scarcely a prison in the world where inmates do not gamble on the sly. But at Nevada's prison, gambling-just as in Reno and Las Vegas-is strictly legal. The reason, say prison officials, is based on realism. "I don't approve of gambling personally...
Although Warden Jack Fogliani, the prison's new boss, has decreased the amount of gambling by putting more prisoners out in the open air on work details, the card tables are still busy. The convicts themselves are responsible for keeping the games clean. Says one: "The inmates control the...
Against this formidable foe, Labor had waged an aggressive "We can do it better" campaign. This display of vigor, reinforced by the unexpectedly effective performance of Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell, upset Tory plans for a quiet election and turned the three-week campaign into the toughest-talking election battle since...