Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild the secret of Siegfried's sole weakness. In slaying the sacred dragon of the Dwarf people, Siegfried has been drenched in the monster's en chanted blood except for one spot where a leaf stuck to his back. Hagen hurls his long spear through the mortal skin, Brunhilde impales herself on Siegfried's grave, and Kriemhild swears undying revenge. She gets it by marrying Attila the Hun and luring Hagen and his cohorts to a Hunland banquet that becomes a blood bath. Rich with...
...turn over an old leaf, the Freshman Yearbook is like the party for twenty-five year old debutantes. Everyone is glad to see it, but by the time it arrives all the faces are already similar...
...years it haunted biologists, who compared it to the problem of finding out if the refrigerator light is shining after the door is closed. Last week Dr. John Decker of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced that he has punched a hole in Rabinowitch's problem. He enclosed one leaf of a tobacco plant in a glass chamber fitted with sensitive instruments for measuring CO2 in the air. The amount of CO2 decreases when the leaf is photosynthesizing under a strong electric light. It increases when the plant is respiring in darkness. Dr. Decker's experiment: measuring what happens...
Today, or the next windless day, Young will paint yellow all that is presently gold on the tower. Later he will apply gold leaf...
...orderly Sergeant Mickey McKeogh say it was the boss's fault the ribbons went askew that day; they had Ike properly squared away but when he moved he pulled his ribbons out of kilter. Ike's decorations in order were: the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Order of the Bath, the French Legion of Honor, and a Russian decoration, the Order of Suvorov (which entitles the wearer to free rides on the Moscow subway). For ceremonially loaded chests of Ike and Zhukov...