Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America Waits. Next day, after nearly a month in Spain, where she had been busy filming It Started with a Kiss, Debbie flew over the top of the earth and into Hollywood. "What about it, Debbie?" reporters asked. "Will you contest the divorce? America is waiting." Friends had taken the trouble to give her a report by telephone on the Las Vegas idyl while her plane refueled in Winnipeg, and Debbie was ready. "It comes as very much of a surprise to me," she said with a straight face. "The position in which I was placed made it necessary...
...inch, circular cake pan filled with earth was spun, and divided by a piece of lath. On each side of the barrier 23 kernels of corn were planted, and the pan was spun again to select the side to which "positive prayer" should be addressed. For eight days, prayer for growth was given to that side, prayer against growth to the other. Result: "Sixteen sturdy little seedlings greeted us on the positive side. On the negative side there was but one." Against that stubborn seedling the experimenters directed "several brief 'bursts' of negation-strong mental commands to grow...
...Mormon interpretation of the curse of Canaan . . . together with unauthorized, but widely accepted statements by [Mormon] leaders in years past, has led to the view among many Mormon adherents that birth into any race other than white is a result of inferior performance in pre-earth life, and that by righteous living dark-skinned races may again become 'white and delightsome...
...narrator recalls, his memory distorted by a sense of tragedy lurking in his background. The newcomer's father was once a prosperous winegrower. His mother surprised her husband making love to a maid and, with her baby still unborn, retreated grimly to the distant home. From such earth, Author Simon grows a strange, sour wine...
Gold has been an ancestor of paradoxes from the legendary case of avaricious King Midas, who nearly starved to death because everything he touched became gleaming metal, to the phenomenon of the U.S. Government's solemnly mining gold dug from the earth, only to bury it again at Fort Knox. Government red tape is a fertile field for the common, or garden, variety of stupidity. In Britain a professional man applied for gasoline coupons and got them with the warning that his car could be used only to take him to his place of business and that "the return...