Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing but hills in the swamp," said Cameron Parish Sheriff O. B. Carter) rolled Audrey's vicious tidal wave, ripping and twisting hundreds of homes, crumpling four fuel storage tanks under the hurled weight of a huge offshore oil barge, flinging two 50-ft. fishing boats onto the main street of Cameron (pop. 3,000), the seat and only incorporated town of the parish...
...deliveries, the farmers are producing as many calves as they can, and every yard of arable land is heavily planted. Said an old peasant: "Today if we waste land, it is money out of our own pockets." The geese and hogs that waddle across Mora-wice's bumpy main street are 100% capitalist-owned...
...nearby town of Custer, S. Dak. (pop. 3,000), Ziolkowski became a center of controversy. At the Gold Pan Tavern and Flyspeck Billy's along Custer's main street, just four miles from Crazy Horse, sentiment ran high. More than half the town was behind Ziolkowski. but some of the people thought that Crazy Korczak would be a better name for the venture. Financing the work with his own money, contributions and tourist admissions, Ziolkowski has not got on as fast as some of his boosters would like. They persuaded him to seek a federal loan, but when...
...Wanderer. In Wolverhampton, England, rush-hour shoppers laughed merrily at Samuel Morgan, shouting as he chased a crowded trolleybus down the main street-until they realized, after he had swung aboard, that he was the driver...
...most daring, occurs nowhere else in the playwright's works. Othello lacks the usual extraneous trappings and non-essentials. We do not have here scenes of tension or conflict alternating with scenes of "comic relief"; nor do we have any separate sub-plots. Everything is directly related to the main current of the drama. Once Iago begins to poison Othello's mind, the play moves slowly, unswervingly and unalterably to the final catastrophe like a runaway steamroller grinding down a hill. But the conflict between Iago and Othello (if we can call it a conflict, for it is a battle...