Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trousers to replace his mud-caked pants. Back in the city of Guantanamo, he stared into gun barrels again-this time with suspicious government soldiers behind them. Before he talked his way past the soldiers and into the U.S. naval base eight miles away, Mallin picked up a Cuban fashion note. "The sack dress is outlawed in Guantanamo," he said. "The girls might carry guns underneath." For his eyewitness report, see HEMISPHERE. Caught...
...main danger. The main danger today is imperialist Communism, or Communist imperialism. The main danger is not from people who have embraced Communism and who are not part of the imperialist group. And it is not from a local man who is exercising power, maybe even in dictatorial fashion, at this moment. Now, I do not mean to say that we should ever forsake our ideals . . . But when it comes to the great struggle in which the world is now tied up, for my part, I will keep my eye on the main one, as I concurrently try to bring...
...singing forest"-so called because of the screams of the victims who were hung by their wrists to trees. Shown a photograph of prisoners hanging in this fashion, Sommer was asked, "Is that you standing beside the men?" Replied Sommer matter-of-factly: "No, we did not hang our prisoners so high...
...These basic facts of genetics were becoming known about the time Geneticist George Beadle was born in 1903. His father ran a small, progressive farm near Wahoo, Neb. (1900 pop. 900). His mother died when he was four, leaving him, his brother and sister to be mothered, after a fashion, by a succession of hired housekeepers. He remembers farm life in general with pleasure, but he still dislikes cream because he had to skim it off endless milk pans...
Visit satirizes in very funny fashion a good many things, such as man's penchant for war, the Pentagon bureaucracy, the self-inflated news commentator, free love, the power of mind over matter, and the flying saucer furore. The story centers around Kreton, a visitor from outer space who lives in the "suburbs of time," can read all the thoughts of men and animals, and considers our earth a mere toy to be played with...