Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late 4th Queen's Own Hussars...
...Since World War II, the U.S. has sold and given to friendly nations nearly $50 billion worth of arms, generally with the full support of Congress. Of late, however, many political leaders have undergone a change of heart. With the Indian-Pakistani war in 1965 and this year's Arab-Israeli hostilities-both conflicts in which American weapons were used by each side against the other-Senate critics have charged that U.S. arms sales, far from serving freedom and peace, may actually do the opposite. Last week, after bitter Senate debate, Administration forces defeated, by 49 votes...
...ridiculous ruse moved the poet to write to Pravda on the day after he had been scheduled to appear in New York: "Why do they pull the wool over everyone's eyes by saying variously that I am ill, that I waited until it was too late before I asked for a ticket, or (now that everyone knows that it's too late to get to the poetry reading) that I'm just about to leave? Of course, the leaders of the Union of Writers must know what they are doing, but why haven't they...
Pity & Terror. Another Hollywood character, the late Spencer Tracy, once said that "Garland audiences don't just listen?they feel." They also fear?and in some cases hope?that they may be witnesses to a breakdown, which is one of the compelling attractions exerted by this durable but disaster-prone star. Her audiences arrive, it seems, achingly aware of Judy's tortured past: her teenage stardom and traumas, her voice crack-ups and innumerable busted contracts, her four broken marriages to increasingly younger men (she just broke off an engagement to a public relations man 16 years her junior...
...closely related species in South America has been known for 80 years to cause severe and sometimes gangrenous bites, but the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusd) was not believed to have such a potential until the late 1950s, when doctors at the University of Missouri identified it as the cause of bites that stubbornly refused to heal. In 1957, a University of Kansas instructor suffered a bite that turned gangrenous and created a wound three inches across. Physicians at the University of Arkansas saw more cases, and have made the brown recluse their specialty...