Word: maw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Mexico City. To tourists looking out from their hotel windows, the rosy mountain is enchanting. But to the primitive Indians living in the village of Amecameca at the volcano's base, it is frightening. Centuries ago their ancestors cast human sacrifices into the crater's fiery maw. Today Popocatepetl sleeps, but the Indians of Amecameca are sure that it is still hungry and jealous of its rights...
...Maw's Delays. In Los Angeles, retired Blacksmith Abraham Jones won an annulment of his marriage when he complained that his wife Amelia "had no love for me," once took three days to cook a chicken...
Outcast of the Islands. Joseph Conrad's hothouse drama of a white man's disintegration in the tropics, strikingly directed by Carol (The Third Maw) Reed; with Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley (TIME, April...
...sprinkled in their wake tetrahedrons (sharp-pointed military devices for puncturing enemy tires). As the kidnap car careened around the last curve before reaching the sector line, the Communist Volkspolizei, alerted and waiting, lifted their barrier, and the taxi sped through without stopping, bearing Dr. Linse into the sinister maw of East Berlin...
While sociologists have ben pondering the impact of the Atom on the American Home, the Bendix on the Mother, and Video on the Book of the Month, the issue of Man versus Machine grimly confronted an Oklshoma draft board this week. Into the impartial manpower maw of Selective Service went a man who might well be a machine. The wheel, to quote one authority, had turned a full circle...