Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote a Pennsylvanian about the tour of the U.S. put on by the French revolutionary republic's new ambassador in 1793. "What hugging and tugging! What addressing and caressing! With liberty caps and the other wretched trumpery of sans culotte foolery!" But President George Washington soon had his fill of Citizen Genêt's pleading with the American people for U.S. help to France over the heads of the U.S. Government, and the nuisance he was making of himself trying to kick up an expedition of American adventurers against the U.S.'s Spanish neighbors in Florida...
...trying to "frighten" humanity by exaggerating the threat of overpopulation, charged the Most Rev. Joseph A. Burke, Bishop of Buffalo, but Catholic ears should remain deaf to such fears. "If we have faith in God, he will not punish those who follow his command to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth...
...painting for the collection: Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip (TIME, Aug. 23, 1954). The Butler Institute today has 635 oils, 500 prints, 365 watercolors and drawings, including top works by John Singleton Copley, James Peale, William Harnett, Thomas Eakins and Albert Ryder-far more than enough to fill the two-story museum's nine galleries...
...also has high hopes of increasing worldwide sugar consumption. The U.S. and most of Europe consume an average 100 Ibs. of sugar per capita yearly, while underdeveloped countries such as India consume as little as 13 Ibs. Lobo sees the world as a huge sugar bowl waiting to be filled, but he knows that without change Cuba's sugar industry cannot help fill it properly. Cuba's share of production has slipped from 22% of the market in 1925 to only 14% today, is bound to keep slipping as Cuba loses its markets to more modern producers. Says...
...corner, the titleholder: U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough, 55, darling of the state's liberal Democrats ("Put the jam on the lower shelf where the little fellow can reach it"). Elected last year to fill out the unexpired term of Price Daniel, who left the Senate to run successfully for Governor, Ralph Yarborough now wants the full six-year term...