Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both ends, and a notebook in his room. One story concerns Mr. Saposcat (Sapo for short, and Homo sapiens, of course) and his wife, who worry about whether their teen-age son will pass some sort of exam. Another is about a farm family that happens to bury a mule. Even though Malone becomes Saposcat temporarily, these episodes dribble into nothingness in keeping with Beckett's conviction that life is essentially nonsense...
...ensure quick communications between its rapidly dispersable outfits, the division will be supplied with 100 Army light planes and helicopters, and provided with an airborne television system and many a new transportation device-among them the "mechanical mule," a vehicle 27 inches high and weighing only 760 lbs., and the "flying platform," a one-man helicopter in which the pilot stands on a ledge over the rotor blades and guides the machine by hand levers...
Instead, the next man to fall was Angelo Galatolo, a Mafia member whose brother was the first Mafia chieftain killed by Crime Inc. Twelve hours after Nino Cottone's death a police patrol near the village of Villa Pantelleria came upon a mule dragging an empty, bloodstained cart. Following a telltale trail of blood down the lonely road along which the mule had come, the police finally found the body of Angelo Galatolo, lying face down in the dust...
Halfway around the world in Mexico, another of humanity's sorrows was turning to promise. Huddled into a corner of Nayarit state, the squalid hamlet of Tecuala had for years had contact with the outside world only through a dirt mule track. But in 1951 an all-weather road pushed into Tecuala, and the town got a small, 600-kw. generator. Within weeks, the power plant put new life into Tecuala. A modern street-lighting system was installed, a water-pumping system modernized; Tecuala's hospital got refrigerators, fluorescent lighting, a fluoroscope. In short order, the town added...
...Haiti, Finland, Norway, Burma, a total $62 million in four loans, all within the last month. Haiti got $2.600.000 for a three-year road program to improve much of its 1,875 miles of mule-track roads; Finland, $15 million to help finance 344,000 kw. of new power capacity for industry; Norway, $25 million to expand its enormous Tokke power project by 400,000 kw., eventually bring it to 800,000 kw.; Burma, two loans totaling $19.4 million to help improve its Toonerville railroads, turn Rangoon into a first-class seaport with new cargo berths, warehouses, dredges and tugs...