Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other bloody episodes of the anti-Batista war, the Castro men had shown plenty of nerve but little coordination. But by proving he could subvert Batista's well-fed, well-trained military, Castro had punched a worrisome hole in the dictator's armor...
...sperm whales, try to listen to them, will you?" These were about the last words heard by the crew of the research vessel Atlantis before casting off last spring from the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution on a voyage to trace currents in the Atlantic. They were shouted at dockside by tall (6 ft. 1 in.), intense Harvard Zoologist William Edward Schevill...
...ship had no phonographic recorder, so Worthington noted carefully the exact intonations of the noises of that and subsequent eavesdroppings on the whales. Two later voyages with a tape recorder confirmed his memory. "First there was a loud, strong sound," he said last week at Woods Hole, "then this clicking noise. Click. Click. Click. Over and over. I counted 70 in a row. They came as fast as five to a second...
TROUBLED MINING INDUSTRY will soon drop into deeper hole because U.S. Government will stop stockpiling lead, zinc. With zinc prices down to 10? a lb. v. 13½? three months ago, Southwest's Eagle-Picher Co. will lay off 1,100 workers by closing its lead and zinc mines in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. Other big mine shutdowns are on their way in New Jersey, Nevada, California...
...foreclose-the-mortgage leer at the outset and proclaims, "I am a plain-dealing villain," obviously subtlety is wholly out of place. As soon as Beatrice gives him a rose and departs, he makes a big thing of dropping it on the ground and kicking it into a hole...