Word: fed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's intelligence agencies have long been regarded as the world's best. Despite slip-ups in World War II-as when a German agent served as valet to the British Ambassador to Turkey, and the distressing affair in The Netherlands when, for 20 months, the Nazis fed faked radio messages to London and captured 54 British agents-the British scored coups that helped make good the boast that Allied intelligence had won "the underground war" as well as the fighting...
...well-fed voters of little Uruguay (pop. 2.7 million) last week threw out the prolabor, welfare-statist Colorado Party that has ruled the country without interruption for 93 long years. Into power, by a vote of 414,000 to 325,000, went the rightist Nationals...
...automated system. Due to start whirring in 1961, the $1,000,000 system will speed Macy's customer-account billing 25-fold. By punching a few buttons on a keyboard, operators can register each of Macy's 40,000 daily charge sales on tape, which is later fed to a computer. It sorts the bills, tots them up, prepares the bills for the customer, registers the return payments. Macy's may even extend N.C.R.'s system to inventory control, get daily reports on everything in stock, be able to increase its return on investment...
...rdenas, a socialist-idealist, turned out to be no puppet. He threw Calles out of the country and carried on the revolution. He nationalized the oil industry, expropriated the huge haciendas. Peasants took the land that had fed the nation, used it at first to feed only themselves. Finally, the country's communal-farm system evolved...
...shells, roughly carved to indicate human features. The cashew shells contain cardol, a notorious source of severe allergic reactions among tropic travelers (TIME, May 13, 1957). Even worse, the heads of the sticks are fitted with eyes that appear to be jequirity beans, are deadly poisonous. The Cincinnati testers fed one of the eyes to a rat, which promptly died. The U.S. PHS warned that if a small child eats one of the beans, serious and perhaps fatal illness may follow...