Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plywood bas-relief of him on the lid. And once on the job site, things go bump in the day. Like the time on a Chicago talk show when Arok impolitely dumped a glass of water into the laps of fellow Guests Bill Bixby, John Travolta and Barbara Eden. Or the time onstage in St. Louis when he was taking a little boy for a ride on the tops of his size 60 quadruple E tin shoes, got out of Skora's FM range, demolished the scenery and broke himself in two. Asked the boy, who was unhurt...
...power they contained-from falling into the possession of outsiders. Aging Eskimos, Frazer also records, sometimes take new names in the belief they thus get a fresh start in life. Such superstitions have waned in today's civilizations. Still, as Noah Jacobs points out in Naming-Day in Eden, people "have not altogether discarded the belief in the virtue of names...
...also willing to allow some modern conveniences into his Eden. When his wife makes butter, she uses a blender in stead of a churn. "If I were to move to an old-fashioned farm," Perrin writes, "and could bring just one piece of modern machinery with me, I wouldn't hesitate a second. I'd bring my chainsaw. It's noisy, it's dangerous, it pollutes the air-and I love...
DIED. Lord Selwyn-Lloyd, 73, Sir Anthony Eden's Foreign Secretary, who with French and Israeli leaders was alleged to have engineered the ill-fated 1956 Suez Canal seizure after it was nationalized by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser; of complications from a fall and subsequent brain surgery; in Oxfordshire, England...
...apartheid system leaves great room for the improvement of blacks," William Eden, economic affairs officer of the Southern Africa Bureau of the State Department, said yesterday. He added that "the blacks are very upset with the apartheid system, but it is not targeted at the United States...