Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice (the House's second loudest, after Illinois' Noah Mason), won lieutenant's bars Stateside before flu struck him down. At Indiana University, one of the big playing fields for future Hoosier politcos, he maneuvered his way to student-union president, helped earn his own way (food manager for Beta Theta Pi fraternity), made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated (A.B., 1922) sixth in a class of 600. At I.U. Law School he graduated first in his class, dashed home to northwestern Indiana's Jasper County to win the first of five consecutive terms as prosecuting attorney...
Bombs & Clips. Mikoyan never seemed to mind the necessity for extra security precautions, such as checking food with Geiger counters (to guard against attempts to poison him with radioactive substances) or the telephone bomb threat that delayed his airplane out of Chicago. In fact, he appeared even philosophical as, from place to place, he was dogged by bitter Hungarian and Ukrainian pickets, who threw stones, snowballs and eggs (no direct hits) in disregard of President Eisenhower's call for a show of courtesy. At first, he thought that "it is like a comedy," but by the time he landed...
...along the beaches around Rio de Janeiro. The five-mile crescent of Copacabana and the other Rio beaches blazed with the ritual candles of some 600,000 devotees of Brazil's fastest-growing cult: "spiritism." Altars were set up everywhere in the sand, heaped with fetishes and food offerings, bottles of beer and the rotgut alcohol known as cachaça. Around the altars, while drums pounded faster and faster, men, women and children danced and shouted, stomped and babbled. Yemanjá, goddess of the sea, was the special object of honor; poor families from Rio's slums...
...metals. In more than 1,700 U.S. hospitals, radiation is used to diagnose disease, treat cancer and tumors, preserve tissue and blood vessels in banks. It has caused mutations in seeds that produce bigger and better crops, been used to destroy such longtime pests as the screwworm, preserved food indefinitely. Nuclear power is already propelling submarines...
...Boris Morros had an advantage in Soviet eyes: his family was still in Russia. Morros would have liked to spring his father from the "frozen prison" of the Soviet Union, but as it was, he could not even get food packages through to him. All this changed one day in 1936 when a seedy character who called himself Edward Herbert sidled backstage at Paramount and said he could fix things so that Morros Sr. would get his hampers. After the wheedling and finagling came the bullying, and Morros found himself being hectored by "Herbert," now a foul-mouthed drunken...