Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants another ring!" He twisted his bound hands sufficiently to draw out a second ring from his pocket. The crowd broke into ululations of "Salavat!" Someone shouted for Mahmud to sing a song, and he obliged. A peasant stepped forward, cried: "I am from Kuchesfahan. I don't know this man and don't know why they are hanging him. Let them hang me in his stead." Others cried: "He is young-have pity!" and "Let him live...
...Wanted. The Amazon's new awakening is beset with old problems. Tennessean Ronald Richardson, now 46, who after World War II duty in Belém stayed on to set up a lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
...Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing Butterfly's Un bel di, the only operatic aria she knew. When she auditioned before Conductor Eugene Ormandy. he marveled: "It is impossible for anyone that beautiful to know how to sing...
...know better than the Opies, a British husband-and-wife team whose previous exegesis of juvenile literature produced the authoritative Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). This time the Opies left the library to listen on school grounds. For eight years they hunted rhymes, rites and riddles among 5,000 children at 70 schools throughout the British Isles. Delighted to teach adults something, children unbuttoned their lips...
...constant stream of exciting outside lecturers. One week he mustered Educator Robert Hutchins, Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Industrialist Clarence Randall, Novelist Robert Penn Warren. Sometimes the results startled Bixler himself. "I am continually delighted by the student response," he once said. "There is this marvelous rising to quality. They know the genuine and the authentic. They are appealed to by the truly worthwhile...