Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come in shooting." A Guard patrol surrounded the house, took the surrender. Three days later Medina's holdout leader, Pedro Joaquln Chamorro, editor-owner of Managua's anti-Somoza La Prensa, also gave himself up. That left 38 rebels still at large, scattered through the hills near the Olama River 65 miles northeast of Managua...
...blades, separated the pupae of 310,000 females from the males. What followed, in the words of one researcher, was "a mass slaughter, and not for the fainthearted." Each tiny pupa was disemboweled, the scent glands carefully cut out. Male moths served as lab assistants: when they were placed near fractions into which the gland material had been divided, their fluttering wings told the scientists which parts contained the magic substance...
...collects rubber bands, bubble gum, matchboxes, unmatched gloves, old typewriter ribbons and dull pencils. She is prone to the sulks, unwinds by tossing dishes at her husband, and coddles a breakfast taste for hot fudge sundaes. All this, burbling forth from a lithe, long-legged, freckled, near-perfect frame (34-24-34), Puts Shirley MacLaine in a new category; expert Hollywood status seekers consider her so far out that she is in, way in. Shirley, at 25, is the brightest face, the freshest character and the most versatile new talent in Hollywood...
...dancing-school recital, and she was only four. "I had on a little green costume and looked like a fool four-leaf clover. I tripped on the curtain and fell down. That's when I got my first laugh. I liked it. I damn near fell down again-on purpose-but I knew my teacher would have killed...
...charged by FTC against 15 tire and tube manufacturers who account for virtually all of the industry's $2 billion annual sales volume. FTC alleged that the Big Four-Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S. Rubber-and others set up zoned pricing system on tires and tubes, which deprived purchasers near production plants of transportation cost savings...