Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pipeline venture, El Paso will spend an estimated $50,000 on archaeology, hopes to uncover still more ancient treasures. (More than 22 likely looking sites have already been found, one of them dating back thousands of years.) The scientists hope that other pipeline companies will take a leaf from El Paso's book, include archaeology as a normal cost of future pipeline construction...
...Paul Block Jr., publisher of the Toledo Blade, in the August Harper's: "But if men within the atomic program . . . are trying to hurdle the secrecy wall in this manner and dump some of their problems in the public's lap, they are merely taking a leaf from the military's book...
...when the present building was under construction, got The Betrayal from an English collector 21 years later. Both were magnificent pieces, devout scenes of Christ under the burden of the cross and accepting the fatal kiss from Judas. But Sassetta's Agony in the Garden, in brilliant gold leaf, soft roses and browns with a rosy-cheeked angel under a cobalt-blue sky, was the handsomest of the three-and the hardest to get. It belonged to an English noblewoman named Lady Mary Catherine Ashburnham, who guarded it jealously in her private gallery, rarely let anyone see the picture...
...broadcasting to the world about U.S. "atrocities." He as often refused. Now and then their treatment would briefly improve, and they even had a party or two with special rations provided by their jailers. But there were other times when grown men, Deane among them, fought for a cabbage leaf on the floor...
...centuries the Indians of Latin America have wrapped their tough, fresh-killed meat in leaves from the papaya tree before cooking it. They never knew why. but the leaves made the meat tender, kept in its juices. For decades scientists have known why: papaya leaf and the juice of the papaya fruit contain an enzyme which breaks down protein tissue in the same way as the stomach's digestive juices...