Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business and joins the church. It sends a shoot above the ground, unfolds green leaves in the sunlight, and manufactures its food by photosynthesis like any respectable plant, while still getting its water and minerals from the host's roots. Soon its little red flowers bloom and its myriad dustlike seeds poison the soil around...
Over the years, the Teutonic twins have not only prevailed against cannibals, Der Captain and myriad other adult oppressors, but have survived, as well, newspaper wars, two World Wars against Germany and the Pianola-to-TV revolution in U.S. taste. Today the jug-eared, saucer-eyed hellions mangle their foes and the language with the same sadistic glee that tickled readers' ribs in 1897.*Child psychologists and teachers these days deplore their influence; children love them...
...states that will elect governors during the national elections next month, a myriad of little grouches and grievances and impressions form an important part of the political picture. This is particularly true when an incumbent governor such as Leo Hoegh is seeking reelection. National, state and local issues intertwine and conflict and complicate one another (last week staunch Eisenhower Republican Hoegh. convinced that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is a local political liability, kept far away when Benson visited Iowa). At times, issues that logically should help the candidate are fatal. In some cases a whole collection of political...
...magnificent Stoa in Athens, Greece. He has given a home site to the United Nations, trained most of China's doctors, directed the efforts of American mission aries abroad, built Manhattan's breathtaking Rockefeller Center, and in general mobilized the best talent he could find to clear myriad paths toward progress...
...cave was man's first natural home: some atomic-age pundits fear that it may also be his last. Oddly, however, though man has probed earth's atmosphere, mapped its surface, scaled its highest peaks and scraped its ocean bottoms, he has largely neglected the myriad subterranean realms. In alpine cliché, a mountain is climbed "because it is there." The spelunker's incentive is that a cave is never even "there" until it is found and its depths are plumbed and proved. Mountaineering has its classic literature−Annapurna, The White Tower, etc.−but caves...