Word: kite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CANCER RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. Then Dr. Richard H. Brooks spelled out his call for 25 prisoners to receive injections of human cancer cells in both arms, and concluded: "Anyone interested in volunteering for research on our yet most baffling problem of our age is requested to send a 'kite' to Warden Alvis." Kite is prison slang for a note, and last week Warden Ralph W. Alvis got 120 of them from convict-volunteers...
...kite," remarked the sacred Ibis. "I am ageless...
...last week, U.A.W. President Walter Reuther deliberately hauled out the biggest skeleton in the Democratic closet and gave it a vigorous oratorical rattling. Said Reuther: "We have made it clear from the very inception of our union that we are not the tail to any political party's kite ... I say to you in all good conscience and I think the labor movement collectively ought to say this: that I believe we ought to say to the leadership of the Democratic Party, who I believe overwhelmingly believe in the things that we believe in, that...
...bleed the poor. Equip its army with inadequate and defective weapons and have its soldiers humiliatingly defeated in the field. Result: revolution. So goes the very recent history of Egypt, and so goes the theme of this first novel by Author Maarten Schiemer. The Cry of the Kite is a fictionalized account of how fat Farouk's restive Egypt became the spitfire Egypt of Soldier Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...through his plot in Hollywooden shoes, but redeems himself by capturing the sights and sounds and smells of Egypt with the freshness of a documentary filmed on location. Like Paul Bowles's more accomplished novel, The Spider's House, set in French Morocco, The Cry of the Kite is a blend of the harsh and the exotic, and an entertainingly readable way of catching up on one's global homework...