Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Form. In London, a judge gave George Edward Croxford a month in jail for biting the nose of Arthur McCartney, added sternly that such behavior was "not British...
Exit Into Sunset. Yenan's most remarkable form of entertainment was the "living newspaper" in which amateur mimes enacted current events. Sample: General Eisenhower invading Normandy atop a human landing barge (see cut). Sugar-coated propaganda also pervaded the Saturday night dances regularly held in a Yenan apple orchard at which Mao appeared in simple peasant dress to dance with his wife, Mme. Chu Teh, Mme. Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock...
Justice came in the form of a caustic-soda bath. After some thought, restorers, under the direction of Florence's Professor Bruno Bearzi, dissolved the statue's lumpy green shell, showed the gilded bronze beneath. Last week San Ludovico stood on his pedestal again in a Manhattan gallery where visitors paid 60? a head to see the ten-foot figure blaze under spotlights in a black-velvet niche...
...explained that he was continuing the medical examination to clear up several loose ends, but other than that he would make no definite statement. At present, most widely felt medical opinion is that some form of elusive accidental poisoning was responsible...
...result of this analysis, the dining halls department has cut down the interval between slicing and serving to make it impossible for any poisonous toxin to form...