Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the Mark, some 15 early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway I south of town scrambled out of their cars, in time to get away from the 400-yd. stretch of roadway that, already loose, was jogged down toward...
...unequal struggle, and become a member of Gingery's Trinity Methodist Church. To honor the anniversary, Policeman Walts invited his minister to ride with him on a routine inspection of the countryside. Then, at 1:15 p.m., as they cruised along U.S. Highway 31-E - the main road between Indianapolis and nearby Louisville-there came a call that summoned Policeman Walts to death, and the Rev. Mr. Gingery to the most grinding crisis of his life...
...Serbs of Mitrovica, a visiting archduke offered to build the community a town hall. No, thank you, said the citizens, what we want is a big jail. A jail! exclaimed the archduke. In heaven's name, why? Because, said the citizens, if we have a big main jail we will not have to travel so far to visit our loved ones...
...screens as he spoke: "Started out into the bush just after daylight. After buffaloes-more dangerous, some say, than elephants. I stalked one by crawling on my belly. LIFE shot it so I'll be able to show you that. Now I'm back at the main base-you got that...
...might be libelous*; the book lambastes almost every major London daily from the Times to the tabloids, but most refused to reply or to review it. In one of the few magazine comments on the book, a columnist in the left-wing New Statesman and Nation declared: "His main case is both well founded and important, and it seems to me a shocking thing that it should be made so very difficult for the ordinary reading public to hear it." The New Statesman's columnist: Francis Williams...